Role of breast milk fortifiers in post-natal nutrition of prematurely born children

• O.S. Panina
• Yuri V. Chernenkov
• S.M. Arkhangelsky
• L.E. Prokopenko

AbstractNursing of very low and extremely low birth weight infants is one of the most difficult problems of modern perinatology. It is impossible to carry out this task without organization of feeding of this group of children. The aim of our research was to study clinical efficiency of breast milk fortifiers administration (human milk fortifier) when preterm infants feeding. In consequence of this clinical research (with includes 60 premature infants born at less than 33 weeks of gestational age with less than 1500 g birth weight) revealed the following advantages before other types of feeding. Mother and child solidarity in the course of breast feeding makes deep favorable mutual emotional pressure. It was succeeded to keep all breast feeding advantages and to provide preterm infants special needs in feedstuffs. Human milk fortifiers administration provides higher body weight gain intensity; reduces length of hospital stay. It should not go unnoticed high tolerability and lack of complications at its medication usability was noted. Human milk fortifier divorce with small quantity of breast milk and that is especially important for very low and extremely low birth weight infants feeding. All above-mentioned allows recommending human milk fortifiers «PRE NAN FM 85» administration with breast milk in neonatal practice.

Keywords:feeding, prematurely, breast milk, artifi cial feeding, of breast milk fortifi ers

All articles in our journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0 license)