“Given that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has benefits that extend into adulthood, every effort has been made to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the context of these studies [...] Human milk though still the best food for infants has been unintentionally compromised by unwelcome chemicals from our environment, as a result of eating, drinking and living in a technologic...

Human milk offers many short term and long term health benefits to infants and mothers. Immune protective components including oligosaccharides protect premature infants from infections and necrotizing enterocolitis. It also enhances gut maturity and has shown better tolerance and rapid feeding advancement in premature infants. Human milk is the best initial feeding for the preterm infant; howe...

Feeding infants breast milk of healthy mothers is associated with a lower incidence of infectious and allergic diseases. Although this effect is of multifactorial origin, it is widely accepted that the entire intestinal flora of breast-fed infants provides antiinfective properties and is an important stimulating factor for the postnatal development of the immune system. The effect of human milk...

OBJECTIVE To compare the weight and height gain and the frequency of clinical complications in preterm newborns weighing less than 1,500 g, exclusively fed human milk or fortified human milk until reaching 1,800 g. METHODS Prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial involving 40 preterm infants weighing < 1,500 g at birth and <or= 34 weeks of gestational age, admitted to a neonatal i...

different contraceptive methods are used by breastfeeding mothers. in general, these methods are classified into two major groups, hormonal and non-hormonal. a number of studies have shown that combined oral contraceptive pills may adversely affect the quality and the quantity of human milk. in other studies it has been shown that estrogen and progesterone seem to reduce the risk of cardiac and...

Many nutrition scientists are not yet aware that human milk contains significant quantities of carbohydrates other than lactose. If you’ve never heard of lacto-N-tetraose or sialyllactose, you are not alone. The role of oligosaccharides in other fields has attracted widespread excitement but curiously little interest has been shown in the oligosaccharides of human milk. Many of the 130 differen...

The advent of Internet forums that facilitate peer-to-peer human milk sharing has resulted in health authorities stating that sharing human milk is dangerous. There are risks associated with all forms of infant feeding, including breastfeeding and the use of manufactured infant formulas. However, health authorities do not warn against using formula or breastfeeding; they provide guidance on how...

There is conflicting evidence on the protective role of breastfeeding in relation to the development of allergic sensitisation and allergic disease. Studies vary in methodology and definition of outcomes, which lead to considerable heterogeneity. Human milk composition varies both within and between individuals, which may partially explain conflicting data. It is known that human milk compositi...

BACKGROUND Breast milk is a complex liquid that provides nutrition to the infant and facilitates the maturation of the infant's immune system. Recent studies indicated that microRNA (miRNA) exists in human body fluid. Because miRNAs are known to regulate various immune systems, we hypothesized that human breast milk contains miRNAs that may be important for the development of the infant's immun...

Human milk is the ideal nutritional support for premature neonates. Considering the need for aggregating nutritional value to human milk provided to such vulnerable group of infants, human milk was concentrated by the block freeze concentration technique. The effects of freeze concentration on the physicochemical properties, the efficiency of the process, color parameters, and the density and d...