SMA Pro Gold Prem Number 2 Baby Milk, 400 g

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Guidelines for making up special feeds for infants and children in hospital. (2007). Food Standards Agency. Your baby should be able to happily switch from the old formula to the new but if you would like to ease the transition, you might prefer to change over gradually. This may allow your little one time to adjust to the new milk. For patients with poor tolerance to traditional enteral feeds. It is the only feed currently available with a food component (13.8%) within the recipe, as well as being iso-osmolar. It is also an appropriate hospital product for patients who may be on blended diet in the community, as it is sterile and ready-to-feed

We believe that breastfeeding is the ideal nutritional start for babies and we fully support the World Health Organization’s recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life followed by the introduction of adequate nutritious complementary foods along with continued breastfeeding up to two years of age. Brown J, Embleton N, Harding J, McGuire W. (2016) Multi-nutrient fortification of human milk for preterm infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev CD000343 Lucas A et al. Randomised controlled trial of a synthetic triglyceride milk formula for preterm infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1997; 77: F178–F184. Bellander. M. et al(2003) Tolerance to early human milk feeding is not compromised by Indomethacin in preterms with PDA. ActaPaediatrica: 921074-8

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Janvier A, Malo J, Barrington K. (2014) Cohort Study of Probiotics in a North American Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. J Ped; 164 (5); 980–985 Sisk P.M et al (2007) Early human milk feeding is assocoated with a lower risk of necrotising enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants. Journal of Perinatology; 27(7):438-33 McClure RJ, Newell SJ. (1996) Effect of fortifying breast milk on gastric emptying. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition;74(1):F60-2.

Bhatia J, Greer F, and the Committee on N. (2008) Use of Soy Protein-Based Formulas in Infant Feeding. Pediatrics;121(5):1062-68. Boyd C.A. Et al (2007) Donor breast milk versus formula milk for preterm infants: systematic review and meta analysis. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed; 92: F169 Breast milk is best for babies and breastfeeding should continue for as long as possible. SMA ® PRO Follow-on Milk/SMA ® ADVANCED Follow-on Milk/LITTLE STEPS ® Follow-on Milk is for babies over six months, as part of a varied weaning diet. Not intended to replace breastfeeding. Breast milk should be fortified with one of the commercially available, multicomponent breast milk fortifiers that are designed to meet the needs of preterm infants.For oral and/or enteral nutritional support of patients at risk of malnutrition relating to chronic kidney disease. Current evidence suggests probiotics are beneficial in the reduction of necrotising enterocolitis and should be considered in infants <32 weeks and <1500g. (40) It should be noted that there is less evidence in the ELBW (<1000g) infants. (41) Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards on a request from the commission related to the microbiological risks of infant formulae and follow on formulae.(2004) The EFSA Journal 113, 1-34