2017–2019 YRS. OUTCOMES OF DONOR HUMAN MILK BANK, HOSPITAL OF LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES KAUNO KLINIKOS

Abstract

Donor human milk should be the first choice for sick or preterm infants when mother’s ownmilk is not available.Mother’s ownmilk can reduce the incidence of serious or fatal diseases (eg. sepsis, necrotising enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity). As a result, donor human milk banks are emerging around the world. The first Lithuanian human donor milk bank was established at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital in Kaunas Clinics. Since the establishment of this human donor milk bank in late 2016 to the end of 2019, 1,901 liters of donor human milk have already been collected and 1,548 newborns have been fed this way. The incidence of NEC and its severe stages decreased when we started feeding newborns with human donor breast milk.