Bovine Colostrum and Reduced Calcium Supplementation Need

• Mineral supplementation for very preterm infants fed fortified human milk.

  • 2024-04-08
  • RCT
  • Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 78(6)
  • • Marie Bendix Simonsen
    • Susanne Soendergaard Kappel
    • Lise Aunsholt
    • Sören Möller
    • Per Torp Sangild
    • Gitte Zachariassen

  • PubMed: 38587119
  • DOI: 10.1002/jpn3.12190

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Calcium Supplementation Need

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  infants fed BC required higher maximum doses of phosphate and calcium (p < 0.05) to maintain acceptable blood values.

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  as a fortifier (dose not specified)