Rapid measurement of macronutrients in breast milk: How reliable are infrared milk analyzers?

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Significant biological variation in macronutrient content of breast milk is an important barrier that needs to be overcome to meet nutritional needs of preterm infants. To analyze macronutrient content, commercial infrared milk analyzers have been proposed as efficient and practical tools in terms of efficiency and practicality. Since milk analyzers were originally developed for the dairy industry, they must be validated using a significant number of human milk samples that represent the broad range of variation in macronutrient content in preterm and term milk. Aim of this study was to validate two milk analyzers for breast milk analysis with reference methods and to determine an effective sample pretreatment. Current evidence for the influence of (i) aliquoting,

SUBMITTER: Fusch G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5050037 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature