In my corner of the world all recommendations and guidelines regarding the use of human milk are based on normal food handling procedures and not on researche specific to human milk. The little research that is done indicates that unheated human milk is not as easy to ''get bad'' as any other substance and guidelines could be more in favour of longer keeping times.
   
  Warmly,
  Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL, MOM in southern Netherlands where winter still is not coming in really

Anne Nans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  While in the NICU yesterday, some of the nurses were asking me about the rationale for using expressed breast milk within 24 hours of thawing. Has this been studied? Does the milk change in some way or increase in bacterial count after 24 hours? The nurses wanted to be able to keep the milk in the refrigerator after thawing for 48 hours and I wasn't able to give them a clear reason not to do this, except that the protocols I looked at said 24. Does anyone know the rationale?


		
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