Abstract:

Mother milk is the most important and uniquie source of nutrients for newborn's growth and development in terms of ensuring the nutritional and immunological characteristics. For various reasons,mothers are forced to give stored milk to their babies. Storage of breast milk is an important issue in order to protect nutritional and immunological content and to prevent microbial growth. Mothers’ wrong applications about breast milkstorage and cleaning conditions may prevent feeding quality and healthy milk of their baby. Therefore, it is important for health staff to guide mothers by having information about conditions and the most secure method. The purpose of this literature review is to show current informations about mother milk storage. In this study, studies about stored breast milk and recommendations of current guidelines about conditions that need attention while storing breast milk, appropriateness of storage containers, storage temperature, storage time and cleanliness of containers were exhibited

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