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 disease
   

   • intractable diarrrhea
   • 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

   Inborn errors of metabolism

    

3. Preventive

   AIDS
   NEC
   Crohn's disease
   Colitis
   Allergies to artificially manufactured milks
   

    

4. Anecdotal/Potential Uses Adult diseases
   
   • 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
   

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