Hello, I recently procurred a donation of 9.5 liters of premie breastmilk for the Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose, CA. It was interesting that the director Maria Teresa Asquith states that most of the breastmilk is used for older 4 and 5 year old children who were premature and had Necrotising Entercolitis (NEC) while in the NICU, probably from receiving formula and not getting any breastmilk. They are all short gutted ( from resection of the dead gut) and have poor villi growth with resultant failure to thrive and poor growth and development. From receiving just 40 cc per day of human milk ( and this is previously frozen and pasturized) they started growing villi and thriving and gaining weight. This is similar to what happens in crohns disease and ulcerative colitis the mucosa of the walls of the gut are damaged by the immune reaction of autoimmune disease. Perhaps just 40 cc of human milk per day might help these patients with autoimmune disease of the gut like crohns and ulcerative colitis. There are many other antidotal uses that have been hypothesized for breastmilk like in burn patients, HIV patients and renal patients who need nutrition that is easy to assimilate and takes little energy to digest. Truely one of the only miracles that we will ever be offered up from God except for conception and birth. Anyhow, I am sure you could procur these articles on the use of human milk for these patients by contacting the Mother's Milk Bank or doing a literature search yourself. Sincerely, Cynthia S. Marske DO