title: Milk kinship is not an obstacle to using donor human milk to feed preterm infants in Muslim countries.
abstract: The development of human milk banks in Muslim countries is challenging because of the tradition of milk kinship. In other countries, this tradition imposes restrictions on Muslim mothers with regard to donating their milk or receiving donor milk for their preterm baby. However, Muslim law does allow the use of donated human milk under certain conditions, for example if it comes from a single known donor or is pooled from the milk of at least three donors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Muslim parents need to be made aware that human milk banks can be used for preterm babies if strict conditions are met.
authors.affiliation: Lactarium Régional Rhône-Alpes, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.|Service de Néonatologie, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.|Senghor University, Alexandrie, Egypt.
authors.forename: Aliaa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khalil
authors.affiliation: Lactarium Régional Rhône-Alpes, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.|Service de Néonatologie, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buffin
authors.affiliation: Service de Génétique, Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Bron, France.|Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Sud Charles Mérieux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pierre Bénite, France.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanlaville
authors.affiliation: Lactarium Régional Rhône-Alpes, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.|Service de Néonatologie, Hôpital de la croix rousse, Lyon, France.|Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Sud Charles Mérieux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pierre Bénite, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Charles
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Picaud
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007514:Islam; D008393:Marriage; D017784:Milk Banks; D008895:Milk, Human; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D061349:Unrelated Donors
keywords: Breastfeeding; Human milk bank; Milk kinship; Muslim; Religion