Own or Donated Human Milk: Its Role in Today's Society
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 48
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Interests: neonatal nutrition; probiotics; antibiotics; Bifidobacterium
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Dear Colleagues,
The WHO supports nutrition with exclusive breastfeeding for up to 6 months, and after the introduction of complementary feeding until the mother decides it is appropriate. This recommendation is even more important in premature neonates and other vulnerable neonates. In premature babies, donated human milk can be the best alternative in situations where the mother cannot yet provide her own milk.
In this Special Issue, we discuss current aspects of breastfeeding and donated human milk banks in high-income countries and those with medium or low income. In all of them, breastfeeding is a key piece in the optimal growth and neurodevelopment of infants, as well as the best preventive measure for various pathologies in the short, medium, and long term.
News in the composition of breast milk, changes related to its technological treatment in milk banks, factors associated with its initiation or maintenance, effects of its use in the prevention of pathology, and any other related point of view, both with their own and donated human milk, they will be well received in this Special Issue.
Dr. Gonzalo Solís Sánchez
Dr. Marta Suárez-Rodríguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- breastfeeding
- donated human milk bank
- growth
- neurodevelopmental
- prevention
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