Perhaps I'm just being blond (actually reasonbly greying), but if one could freeze-dry a given amount of mom's milk and mix the powder with a same amount of fresh milk, wouldn't that just double the protein level, as well as that of all other solid particles?

Warmly

Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer puzzled in southern Netherlands

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Subject: [LACTNET] Freeze-dried human milk
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Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 1:02 PM

Peter Hartmann and his research group have been trying for years to get a product we can use in the NICU.  The problem is that human milk is (naturally) so low in protein it takes huge volumes of donor milk to get a very small amount of human milk protein.


Nancy E. Wight MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP 
Attending Neonatologist, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women 
Medical Director, Sharp HealthCare Lactation Service 
San Diego, CA, USA 
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