Human Milk-Treatment and Quality of Banked Human Milk.
The aim of human milk banks is to deliver safe and high quality donor human milk. Treatment of human milk has to destroy most microorganisms while preserving immunological and nutrient components, which is obtained when using low time low temperature pasteurization. However it destroys bile-simulated lipase, reduces lactoferrin, lysozyme, immunoglobulins, and bactericidal capacity of human milk. New methods are under investigation such as high temperature short time pasteurization, high pressure processing, or ultraviolet irradiation. They have been tested in experimental conditions and there are promising results, but they have to be tested in real conditions in human milk bank.
Neonatal Unit, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon F-69004, France; Rhone-Alpes Auvergneregional Human Milk Bank, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon F-69004, France; Lyon Sud Charles Merieux School of Medicine, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Pierre-Bénite F-69310, France; Rhone-Alpes Human Nutrition Research Center, Hôpital Lyon Sud, Pierre-Bénite F-69310, France; European Milk Bank Association (EMBA), Milano, Italy. Electronic address: jean-charles.picaud@chu-lyon.fr.
Jean-Charles
JC
Picaud
Neonatal Unit, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon F-69004, France; Rhone-Alpes Auvergneregional Human Milk Bank, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon F-69004, France.
Rachel
R
Buffin
D006801:Humans; D007136:Immunoglobulins; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007781:Lactoferrin; D017784:Milk Banks; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000737:chemistry; D009113:Muramidase; D061352:Pasteurization / Q000379:methods*
D007136:Immunoglobulins; D009113:Muramidase; D007781:Lactoferrin
Breastfeeding; Donor milk; Infection; Milk; Milk banking; Nutrition; Pasteurization; Prematurity