Infant formula feeding cow's milk or breast milk

Enriched milk formula is no better than standard formula for feeding preterm infants after hospital discharge. "Our study challenges the current dogma on the use of special milk formulation for feeding the premature infants after hospital discharge," Dr. Winston W. K. Koo from Wayne State University and Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, compared the growth, bone mass, and body composition in 89 preterm infants who were randomly assigned to receive a nutrient-enriched formula or a standard formula for one year after discharge. The infants fed the standard formula had significantly higher scores for all growth variables than did infants fed the enriched formula, the researchers report. The rates of weight gain and length increase were also significantly higher in the infants fed standard formula. The results of X-ray imaging studies also indicated that the standard formula group had significantly higher bone mineral content, fat mass and lean mass than did the enriched formula group. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, December 2006.

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