TY - JOUR T1 - Use of donor breast milk in neonatal units in the UK JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F279 LP - F281 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307606 VL - 100 IS - 3 AU - Christos S Zipitis AU - Jonathan Ward AU - Rohini Bajaj Y1 - 2015/05/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/100/3/F279.abstract N2 - Maternal breast milk is the best source of enteral nutrition for preterm or low birthweight infants. With insufficient volumes of maternal breast milk, donor-expressed breast milk (DEBM) or artificial formula are two common alternatives. Despite publication of a recently updated Cochrane review1 demonstrating a decrease in the risk of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in babies receiving DEBM compared with those receiving formula, concerns about the methodological quality of some of the included studies, their applicability to current neonatal practices (the majority of included trials were carried out in the 70 s and 80 s), the slower in-hospital growth rates of those on DEBM and the fact that growth-restricted premature infants as well as unwell infants were generally excluded … ER -