Premium
A PLANNED PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE ANTI‐INFECTIVE PROPERTY OF VARYING QUANTITIES OF EXPRESSED HUMAN MILK
Author(s) -
NARAYANAN I.,
PRAKASH K.,
PRABHAKAR A. K.,
GUJRAL V. V.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09449.x
Subject(s) - medicine , property (philosophy) , prospective cohort study , epistemology , philosophy
. This paper comprises 261 low birth weight infants who were divided into four groups with different feeding schedules. Group I–expressed human milk for all the feeds; Group II–human milk for half the feeds and the nursery formula for the rest; Group III–colostrum, 20 ml three times a day along with the nursery formula; and Group IV–control–only the nursery formula. The groups were matched by means of a randomised block design for identifiable factors which could predispose to the occurrence of infection. Infections were found to be significantly less in the groups which received human milk ( p <0.001).