Donor milk

Giving and receiving blood is a well-respected custom. The donor freely gives what he has in abundance and saves a life. Safety precautions will keep risks as low as possible. Organ donations may be a bit more of a problem to some, but few will refuse a donated organ when absolutely necessary. When speaking about donor human milk more noses will be wrinkled and brows lifted, for this obviously has a higher ‘’Yucky-factor’’. But human milk can save lives as well. As food for an infant that can’t receive enough or none at all from his own mother, but also as medicine for children and adults. For premature babies a exclusively human milk based diet is safer than infant formula or human milk fortified with non-human-milk based products. The strong immunologic properties of human milk make it a powerful factor in the treatment of all kinds cancer.

Sandra Sullivan S, Richard J. Schanler RJ, et al: An Exclusively Human Milk-Based Diet Is Associated with a Lower Rate of Necrotizing Enterocolitis than a Diet of Human Milk and Bovine Milk-Based Products. The Journal of pediatrics 2010, 156(4):562-567.

Megan Doyle: Use of Human Milk as Cancer Therapy; Breast Milk Helps Reduce Cancer-Related Symptoms. Apr 27, 2009 http://www.suite101.com/content/use-of-human-milk-as-cancer-therapy-a113100