Sentences with phrase «compared with human milk»

Not exact matches

Recall that breastfed infants wake up much more frequently and at shorter intervals than do bottle fed infants since cows milk is designed for cow brain growth (much less volume compared with human brains) and body growth rates while breast milk has just the right composition which means fast burning sugars and much less protein and fat... for that ever - growing human infant brain which triples in size in the first year.

Results Compared with infants fed at the breast, infants fed only by bottle gained 71 or 89 g more per month when fed nonhuman milk only (P <.001) or human milk only (P =.02), respectively.

Compared with infants fed at the breast only, infants fed only by bottle gained 71 or 89 g more per month when fed nonhuman milk only (P <.001) or expressed human milk only (P =.02), but they gained only 37 g more per month when fed both expressed human milk and nonhuman milk (P =.08).

Effect of human milk on plaque pH in situ and enamel dissolution in vitro compared with bovine milk, lactose, and sucrose.

More recently, Lucas and Cole, 19 in a large, prospective, controlled study reported a lower incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis among VLBW infants fed human milk compared with formula - fed infants.

The team compared the purchased samples with their own preparations of human milk diluted with cow's milk to approximate the amount of contamination required in order to test positive for bovine DNA.

One of the three major classes of immunoglobulin occurring in human colostrum and milk, secretory IgA, has been found in significantly higher concentrations in the milk of mothers of preterm infants compared with milk from mothers of term infants.3Skin - to - skin contact between mothers and preterm infants in this sample may have promoted maternal production of protective antibodies specific to the nosocomial flora of the NICU.9 The provision of human milk may enable preterm, VLBW infants to compensate for their inherently immature immune status.

In our study, limited to VLBW infants, the incidence of any infection or sepsis / meningitis was significantly reduced in human milk - fed infants compared with exclusively formula - fed infants.

Mothers who chose to provide human milk were more likely to be non-black, married, employed, and to have insurance or health maintenance organization coverage for medical care, receive prenatal care, and report avoiding alcohol, smoking, or drug use during pregnancy compared with mothers who provided infant formula exclusively.

Studies comparing human milk from preterm mothers with that from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with term milk.2 — 4 Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants do not benefit from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9

Although a few reports of late onset GBS in infants whose mothers also expressed GBS in their breastmilk are described in the literature, with the standard medical treatment of breastmilk as just some infectious bodily fluid, no studies are to be found specifically comparing overall GBS infections in infants to presence or absence of exclusive human milk feeding.

The unadjusted incidence of infection was significantly higher for formula - fed infants (47.2 %) compared with infants who received human milk (29.3 %; Table 2).

An infant who is not breastfed for the first 6 months of life is 14 times more likely to die compared with an infant who receives human milk only.

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monHuman babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monhuman milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

«The higher levels of these proteins in human milk are consistent with the well - established perspective that human babies, compared to other primate infants, are born at a slightly earlier stage of development and require higher levels of specific proteins that will nurture them as they mature,» Lemay said.

For example, colostrum contains multiple trophic factors that aid in enterocyte proliferation when compared with mature human milk (1).

Two trials compared early, short - term hydrolyzed formula to exclusive human milk feeding with no significant difference in infant allergy or childhood cow's milk allergy reported (35).

No studies have compared exclusive prolonged hydrolyzed (including both partially and extensively hydrolyzed formulas) formula feeding (more than 3 days) with human milk feeding on the incidence of atopic disease.

In addition, human milk - fed premature infants receive significant benefits with respect to host protection and improved developmental outcomes compared with formula - fed premature infants.13 — 22 From studies in preterm and term infants, the following outcomes have been documented.

So, compared with the milk of other mammals, human milk has fairly paltry amounts of protein and fat.

To understand why, you need to compare human milk with the milk of other mammals.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

At 3 months, there were no differences in breastfeeding rates between the 2 groups; 85.8 % of infants in the offer - pacifier group were exclusively breastfeeding compared with 86.2 % in the not - offered group.282 The AAP policy statement on breastfeeding and the use of human milk includes a recommendation that pacifiers can be used during breastfeeding, but implementation should be delayed until breastfeeding is well established.283

In one study reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, none of the infants receiving human milk as the only milk in the first 12 months of life, without other foods containing iron, were anaemic at 7 months, compared with 43 % of those breastfed for a shorter period.

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monHuman babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monhuman milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

«The higher levels of these proteins in human milk are consistent with the well - established perspective that human babies, compared to other primate infants, are born at a slightly earlier stage of development and require higher levels of specific proteins that will nurture them as they mature,» Lemay said.

The research team, led by the University of California, Davis, came to this conclusion after developing a new technique for comparing the proteome — all detectable proteins — of human milk with the proteome of the rhesus macaque monkey.

I am curious about comparing the nutrition of adult great apes in the wild vs. their breast milk content... and then using that as a basis on coming up with a diet ratio for adult humans.

In 1986 a research team headed by McGraw reported in The Lancet that, compared with carefully collected human breast milk containing 5 to 20 micrograms per liter, aluminum concentrations were 10 to 20 fold greater in most cow's milk - based formulas and 100-fold greater in soy - based formulas.9