Province Strengthens Campaign For Breast Milk Donation

The Mendoza Milk Bank has 35 mothers who donate monthly and collect about 35 liters of bad milk a week. This action is very important because it saves lives.

World Human Milk Day is celebrated every 19 May. The best way to respect this date is to rely on donor mothers, great protagonists who save lives not only by feeding their babies, but by sharing them with those who need them most.

Mendoza encourages badfeeding and bad milk donation, which is the best life insurance, as it provides babies with lifelong health coverage. In this context, he joins the celebration with an awareness day at the Metraux Hospital next Wednesday from 10 am, as well as outreach and donation promotion activities in health centers and hospitals. hospitals.

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Breast milk is the optimal food for all newborns. It is provided exclusively during the first six months of life and supplemented with other foods up to at least two years, which contributes to their optimal development and growth.

In this regard, Luz Vargas, head of the Banco de Leche Materna, said: "We continue to bet on the donation of milk.In recent months, there are about 35 home donor mothers per month and 15 in health centers. It is very important to continue to raise community awareness of the importance of giving.We encourage women to become donor mothers. "

"Currently, the bank collects 35 liters per week, with a stock available up to the day of the 86-liter date.Our goal is to reach more places, including adding donations from isolated areas, where the mothers can not go to a collection center, "added Vargas.

The province has a bad milk bank and maternal health network to cover the nutritional needs of premature babies or sick newborns whose mothers can not badfeed.

These centers process and distribute safe, quality bad milk to any child in need. In this way, mothers who do not produce enough milk for their children to be affected by an illness or who are following a pharmacological treatment can be supplemented in the feeding of babies.

Having enough bad milk helps to ensure badfeeding in children hospitalized in neonatal departments of the province. For this, Mendoza has a network of bad milk with badfeeding centers distributed in 10 hospitals: Parish, Perrupato, Carrillo, Notti, Malargue, Schestakow, Metraux, Misericordia, Scaravelli, Santa Isabel and the Bank of human milk.

Breastmilk

Breast milk is the only food the child needs in the first six months of life. This is the first time the baby is vaccinated, there is no other way to protect it. In addition, it provides the newborn with all the elements necessary for healthy growth and development. It is adapted to the needs and possibilities of the child and thus digests more easily than any other milk.

Through the milk, protective factors (antibodies) are transmitted to the baby that protects him from the most common diseases as soon as it is very small and until he is able to to form one's own defenses.

Processed bad milk is used to feed babies who can not receive milk from their own mothers. The administration of bad milk is particularly effective for feeding newborns at risk, whether due to extreme prematurity, low birth weight, or other causes .

How to make a donation?

Any mother who has plenty of milk and agrees to a series of conditions, similar to those required by a blood donor, can be a donor, including: do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, do not take alcohol drugs not prescribed by the doctor and do not consume drugs of abuse.

In addition, women must authorize donation by informed consent and have previous and normal blood and urine tests.

If the mother meets the requirements, these steps must be followed:

• Perform a blood test at the mother.

• Breast milk is stored in the freezer.

• You will pick up the bottle at the address.

• Sort and pasteurize the milk.

Who receives the given bad milk?

The main recipients of milk given are newborns admitted very prematurely, seriously ill or requiring surgery. Although in these newborns, the mother's own mother's milk remains the food of choice for protective effects. When it is not available, the milk of choice given by other mothers is a food of choice. This is established by the World Health Organization and Unicef, based on scientific studies that demonstrate the benefits of given bad milk.

Why is donated milk better than formula?

Because it is better tolerated, it protects sick or premature newborns from serious intestinal problems, such as enterocolitis, and decreases the risk of infection, thus improving their chances of recovery and of development.