Clinical Uses of Donor Milk
1. Nutritional
- Prematurity
- Failure to thrive
- Malabsorption
- Renal failure
- Feeding intolerance
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Post-surgical nutrition
- Burns
2. Medical/Therapeutic
Treatment for infectious disease
- intractable diarrhea
- gastroenteritis
- ulcerative colitis
- infantile botulism
- sepsis
- pneumonia
- haemorrhagic conjunctivitis
Post-surgical healing
- omphalocele
- gastroschisis
- intestinal obstruction/bowel fistula
- colostomy repair
Immunodeficiency diseases
- patients undergoing immunosuppression therapy
- allergies
- IgA deficiencies
Inborn errors of metabolism
3. Preventive
- AIDS
- NEC
- Crohn’s disease
- Colitis
- Allergies to artificially manufactured milks
4. Anecdotal/Potential Uses Adult diseases
- cirrhosis of the liver
- feeding the aged
- preventing progression in autoimmune diseases e.g. Lupus, AIDS, arthritis
- Eye surgery/diseases
- Burns – as topical for epidermal growth factor
- Crack/cocaine infants
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