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No matter how we manage our health, efficacy, risks and costing are top concernsLack of effect from fortified breast milk that suggest may boost very preterm infants in first year
Consume breast milk with protein fortifier from tube feeding in very preterm infants often done recently.
This procedure also had support from several suggestions that adding fortified breast milk may improve very preterm infant’s growth.
Due to this the researchers from Denmark investigate whether adding protein fortifier to breast milk could boost those infants’ growth.
Reported in Pediatric on March 14, 2011, the study authors, Dr. Gitte Zachariassen, a pediatrician at Hans Christian Andersen Children’s Hospital in Odense, Denmark, and colleagues said that adding protein supplement to breast milk had lack of effect to boost infant growth in the first year when compared with regular breast milk alone both in weight and length.
This findings appeared after the researchers followed 320 infants born at 24 to 32 weeks of gestation who eventually were discharged home and half of the mothers randomly assigned to add protein supplement to their breast milk.
Overall, infants in the two breastfed groups showed no difference in average weight gain or growth over the first year of life.
However, infants fed formula tended to be somewhat heavier and longer by the age of 12 months, but, the average weight and length in all three groups were within normal range.
The surprising of this findings, according to the study authors may caused by a possibility of low dose of supplementation, or fortified breast milk might benefit the smallest preemies when they leave the hospital.
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