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What Is The Role Of Donor Breast Milk?


Article Date: 04 Dec 2006 - 11:00am (PST)

More evidence is needed to determine whether donor breast milk is beneficial for babies in intensive care, argues a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. (Donor breast milk banking BMJ Volume 333 p 1133)

Mother's milk is recommended for all babies, but mothers of preterm babies and other babies in intensive care are often unable to provide enough milk for their baby's needs. Donor breast milk and formula milk are options to make up the shortfall.

But the extent to which pasteurised donor breast milk retains the biological properties of mother's milk is uncertain and its place in present day neonatal intensive care is unclear, says Neena Modi, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College London.

What evidence is there to support the use of donor breast milk, she asks?

A recent detailed analysis showed that donor breast milk reduced the risk of necrotising enterocolitis (a serious inflammatory condition of the bowel) when compared with formula, but infant growth was slower, and benefit was seen only when breast milk or formula was the sole source of nutrition. Current practice would be to use donor milk as a supplement to mother's milk and not as sole diet.

Only two studies have compared donor milk and formula as a supplement to mother's milk and neither found a significant difference in the rate of necrotising enterocolitis. For other outcomes, justification for using donor milk is largely anecdotal. Thus the role of donor breast milk in current neonatal practice remains to be established, she writes.

Furthermore, in contrast to blood banks that also provide a biological product, human milk banks in the UK conform to a voluntary code of practice but are otherwise unregulated.

So where does this leave us?

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Human milk banks around the world have arisen through the voluntary efforts of committed individuals. Their altruism is undeniable, but unregulated expansion of human milk banking requires evidence of benefit, she says. Donor breast milk is also expensive. Although donors are unpaid, the cost of UK human milk banking (30-150 pounds per litre) is probably an underestimate of the full cost to the National Health Service.

Professor Modi believes that research is needed to determine whether donor milk, when used as a supplement to mother's milk, has short term or long term benefits (or both). At present there are less than 20 human milk banks in the UK but over 250 neonatal units and access to donor milk is very variable.

If donor breast milk is beneficial, clinical guidelines should reflect objective evidence, access should be equitable, and milk banking procedures should be consistent. If it is not beneficial NHS resources would be better directed towards supporting mothers' own lactation, she concludes.

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Contact: Emma Dickinson
BMJ-British Medical Journal
 

Recording Neo-Natal Consultations Is Helpful To Parents, BMJ

Parents with infants needing neo-natal care find recordings of consultations with their consultants helpful, finds a study published on http://bmj.com/.

The parents of babies requiring care in neo-natal intensive care units (NICU) often do not recall the information given to them. Researchers in Australia set out to assess the usefulness of audio recording the conversations between mothers and their neo-natal consultants. Two hundred mothers with babies in NICU were put into two groups - the first had their consultation recorded and were given a copy of the recording. The second - the control group - did not receive a recording.

After ten days, and again at four months, the researchers interviewed the parents to document their recall of the diagnosis, tests, treatment and outcome of their babies, as explained by their neonatologist. The mothers involved also completed a questionnaire about their own general health.

Those who had received a recording had significantly greater recall of information in the diagnosis and outcome of their baby, and of tests and treatments. Six mothers could not remember any information - all of whom were in the control group.

Whilst the study found that audio recordings did not affect the mothers' general wellbeing, e.g. levels of anxiety or depression, the majority (96%) of those in the 'tape' group listened to the tapes and found them helpful. For babies with poor outcomes, the mothers who received the recordings were significantly more satisfied with the conversation than those in the control group.

The authors say that effective communication underpins family-centred care in NICUs and they suggest that neonatologists develop guidelines for the use of audio recordings.

Audiorecording of medical conversation has immense potential for research and may have implications for doctors working in other specialities, they conclude.

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Contact: Emma Dickinson
BMJ-British Medical Journal
 
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