1. Expressing breast milk at home for 24-h periods provides viable samples for macronutrient analysis
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Egil André Nygaard, Ketil Størdal, Terje R. Selberg, Emma E. Løvlund, and Sven-Harald Anderssen
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Milk, Human ,business.industry ,Fortification ,A protein ,General Medicine ,Breast milk ,Specimen Handling ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Pregnancy ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Medicine ,Humans ,Female ,Food science ,Linear correlation ,Lactose ,business ,Expressed human milk ,Total protein - Abstract
Aim This study aimed to evaluate the reproducibility of macronutrient measurements of domestic pooled human milk from mothers with preterm infants and to see how the results affected human milk fortifications. Methods We asked 28 new mothers to express their breast milk for 24 h on two consecutive days and repeat the process at weekly intervals. The samples were analysed using mid-infrared technology to calculate the differences between the milk collected on two consecutive days for reproducibility and the total protein supply with standard fortification. Results There was a significant linear correlation between the two consecutive days with regard to protein (r = 0.94, p
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- 2014