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Mar 15, 2011

Comprehensive interpretation of preterm infants with special milk powder

Premature infant milk powder is a kind of special populations, appropriate to the special period milk powder (edible only 20-30 days). Obstetrics under the existing environmental conditions in the country, food special milk in preterm infants, or with special milk powder and the effect of breast feeding together are better than the simple effect of breastfeeding.


Premature infant milk powder into the domestic approximately has been 6-7 years of time, all foreign products now, but on a limited number. As demand for foods for special nutritional milk powder in preterm infants is very low, not as a normal baby milk entering the market at all levels, and product formulations special, high quality of raw material requirements, health indicators requires strict processing is difficult , but price should not be too high, before production must also be strict criteria and formula review, clinical feeding test of products out there to be, but at a cost of RMB needs to 701 million. At present, China has never developed, production of milk in preterm infants.


Need to contain fatty acids in milk in preterm infants, particularly DHA (22 carbon six acid) and ARA (arachidonic acid), these components help development in preterm infants.


Although premature newborns in the proportion of small, but it needs to put in more spirit to care, so milk in preterm infants should also have purchased at the market.


Milk in preterm infants to add fatty acids


United States pediatric experts recently uncovered if containing fatty acid in milk powder, particularly DHA (22 carbon six acid) and ARA (arachidonic acid) to help development in preterm infants.


United States the April issue of the journal of Pediatrics published a study comparing 361 milk feeding in premature infants and growth of 105 breastfeeding term infants. Study found that preterm infants who eat added fatty acid milk, growth is better than don\'t eat fatty acids in preterm infants. Due to

preterm birth time, researchers take the mother\'s last menstrual period more infants age approach. 118 weeks after the last menstruation, DHA from algae oil source formula feeding preterm infants, than ordinary milk or DHA from fish oil formula weight of premature infants grow fast, even soon catch up with the term infants. Researcher on infant motor coordination and neurological function when scoring, found that eating any way to add fatty acids (including DHA and ARA) milk infants children score higher than ordinary milk powder.

Anderson research under the auspices · Shi de doctor wrote in his report: \"clinical trials confirm that adding DHA and ARA in milk powder can promote the growth and development of premature infants. ”



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