Human milk pasteurization: Benefits and risks

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 269-275

  O'Connor, Deborah L ^a   Ewaschuk, Julia B ^b   Unger, Sharon ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

donor milk; human milk; pasteurization; preterm infants

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; CALCIUM; COPPER; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FOLIC ACID; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; GROWTH FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTOFERRIN; LACTOSE; MAGNESIUM; MILK PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; SODIUM; THIAMINE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; VITAMIN; ZINC;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BREAST MILK; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DONOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; FREEZE THAWING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MACRONUTRIENT; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PASTEURIZATION; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MILK BANKS; MILK, HUMAN; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PASTEURIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84928468572     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000160     Document Type: Review

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