Interesting study mentioned on today's Medscape. The study compares how 
well premature infants fared on pasteurized donor milk versus formula and 
describes no significant difference. The study authors emphasize the point 
that premature infants do best on their mother's own milk---a point that 
did NOT come across in a report on our local news.

At any rate, the study is published in Pediatrics (116:400-406) and was led 
by Dr. Richard J. Schanler, from North Shore University Hospital in 
Manhasset, New York. The Medscape article is at 
<http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/510161>

To quote from this article: "We found that extremely premature infants fed 
pasteurized donor human milk had the same incidence of sepsis and 
necrotizing enterocolitis as infants fed preterm formula, and both of these 
groups had more sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis than infants fed their 
own mothers' milk," Dr. Schanler said. "We did not expect these results."


regards,
Julia

Julia R. Barrett
Freelance Science Writer & Editor
Mom to Sean (5) and Kira (on the brink of 2)
Madison, Wisconsin

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