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Pasteurization of Mother's Own Milk for Preterm Infants

NCT01580826 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 303

Last updated 2023-12-06

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Summary

We hypothesize that short term infection-related benefits of human milk feeding are decreased by the process of pasteurization. Primary objective of the study is to compare the incidence of late-onset sepsis in very low birth weight infants assigned randomly to receive either pasteurized or raw expressed mothers'own milk.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

pasteurization of mother's own milk

mother's milk heat treated at 62,5°C for 30 minutes with a Sterifeed® S75 TES pasteurizer.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Veerle Cossey, Dr · Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
2 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-03-31
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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