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 diseases: 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
3. Preventive: AIDS, NEC, Crohn's disease, Colitis, Allergies to artificially manufactured milks
4. Anecdotal/Potential Uses
   Adult uses: 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

--Human Milk Banking Association of North America