Breast milk reduces risk of sepsis and intensive care costs in very-low-birth-weight infants
Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 00:00
in Health & Medicine
Feeding human breast milk to very-low-birth-weight infants greatly reduces risk for sepsis and significantly lowers associated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) costs, according to a new study. A daily dose of 25 to 49.99 milliliters of human milk per kilogram cut NICU costs by more than $20,000, while 50 milliliters per kilogram per day lowered NICU costs by nearly $32,000.