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The Bacterial Content of Breast Milk After the Early Initiation of Expression Using a Standard Technique
- Source :
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 3:104-107
- Publication Year :
- 1984
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1984.
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Abstract
- This study was initiated to evaluate the effect of early expression on the bacterial colony count of human milk. Significant bacterial contamination (greater than or equal to 10,000 colony-forming units/ml milk) was more common in 11 mothers who delayed the onset of expression of their milk compared with mothers who began to express their milk in the immediate postpartum period (n = 15) or who began to nurse their own full-term infants soon after delivery (n = 9). These data suggest that mothers who are separated from their prematurely born or sick infants should begin to express milk for their own infants as soon after birth as possible to provide milk with low bacterial contamination for frozen storage and later use.
- Subjects :
- Time Factors
Bacteria
Milk, Human
business.industry
Postpartum Period
Gastroenterology
food and beverages
Physiology
Breast milk
Early initiation
Standard technique
fluids and secretions
Pregnancy
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Immunology
Humans
Medicine
Female
Frozen storage
Milk Ejection
business
Postpartum period
Bacterial colony
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02772116
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a86f49a35a875596655a8ca0ee6fce5