6 Questions
What is the recommended time period for breastfeeding according to the World Health Organization?
Within the first hours of life
What is the primary purpose of human milk banks?
To provide milk to infants who cannot receive it otherwise
In which country was the first human milk bank founded?
Austria
What is the largest group in need of donated milk?
Premature infants
What is the benefit of using banked human milk in neonatal intensive care units?
Reduces Necrotizing enterocolitis
Which sex organ is involved in lactation?
Memory glands
Study Notes
- Breast milk can be from the breast or expressed by hand or pump.
- World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding within the first hours of life.
- First human milk bank founded in Vienna, Austria in 1909.
- Nursing was practiced in Europe in the 19th century to provide milk for infants.
- First milk bank in the US was in the Boston floating hospital.
- Milk banking activity varies greatly between different parts of the world.
- India's first milk bank was established in 1989 at Sion hospital, Mumbai.
- Nearly 3000-5000 babies benefit from the services of this milk bank every year.
- Banked human milk in neonatal intensive care units reduces Necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Artificial formula cannot provide the broad range of benefits of human milk.
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