Target Versus Standard Human Milk Fortification in Very Low Birth Weight Preterm Infants

Launched by FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA' GRANDA, OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO · Mar 17, 2016

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ClinConnect Summary

The prevention of postnatal growth failure in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants is of utmost importance. Fortified human milk is the goal for preterm infants' nutrition. Standard fortification is the most commonly used and safe supplementation practice but it does not consider the native variability of human milk. Data on efficacy and safety of prolonged target fortification are scarce. Prospective interventional study was conducted in VLBW preterm infants, exclusively fed with human milk. Twenty-four hour collected pools of human milk were analyzed and targeted human milk fortif...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion criteria:
• • Birth weight \< 1500 grams
• • Gestational age \< 32 weeks
• • Birth weight \> 10th percentile according to Fenton' growth chart
• • Exclusively breast feeding during the entire hospital stay
• Exclusion criteria:
• • - Presence of congenital malformations that could affect growth (congenital diseases, chromosomal abnormalities, chronic lung disease, severe brain disease, severe metabolic, cardiac or gastrointestinal diseases)