ArticlePublic health nutrition2022
What is known about human milk bank donors around the world: a systematic scoping review.
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- Human milk banking services: an umbrella review.Public health nutrition · 2026Pooled it
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- Impact of Holder Pasteurization on Extracellular Vesicles and Immunoregulatory MicroRNAs in Human Breast Milk.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Article
- Impact of processing techniques on donor human milk: a multi-omics and bioinformatics scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
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- Views on wet nursing and expressing breastmilk for sharing and human milk bank donation among mothers in two parenting social media communities in Vietnam.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
- The Unsung Heroes: The Profile of the Donor at a Southern Italian Milk Bank and Driving Factors in Human Milk Donation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Disparities in being able to donate human milk impacts upon maternal wellbeing: Lessons for scaling up milk bank service provision.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Donation barriers, enablers, patterns and predictors of milk bank donors in the United States and United Kingdom.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- The acceptability of a donor human milk bank and donated human milk among mothers in Limpopo Province, South Africa.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Personalized Nutrition with Banked Human Milk for Early Gut Microbiota Development: In Pursuit of the Perfect Match.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Review of current best practices for human milk banking.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Review
- Barriers and Facilitators for the Donation and Acceptance of Human Breast milk: A Scoping Review.Current nutrition reports · 2023Article
- Acceptability of breast milk donor banking: A qualitative study among health workers in Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Mothers' Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding in Terms of Health Safety and Professional Lactation Education: A National Survey of Women.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2023Article
- Characteristics and factors influencing the volume of breastmilk donated by women to the first human milk bank in Vietnam.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- Assessment of Iodine Concentration in Human Milk from Donors: Implications for Preterm Infants.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Global neonatal care and access to human milk.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe WHO recommends that low birth weight infants receive donor human milk (DHM) when mother's milk is not available. Systematic reviews have been published regarding clinical outcomes of infants receiving DHM, as well as the impact of pasteurisation on the composition of DHM; however, information about milk bank donors has not been systematically assessed.
designWe conducted a systematic scoping review of original research articles about milk bank donors published before August 2020.
settingGlobally.
participantsDonors to milk banks.
resultsA total of twenty-eight studies were included across a variety of geographies: the USA (n 8), Brazil (n 7), Spain (n 4), India (n 2), and single studies in France, Norway, Poland, Italy, Taiwan, Korea and China. Study variables were grouped into six main categories: Donor Demographics (n 19), Clinical Characteristics (n 20), Donor Experiences (n 16), Donation Patterns (n 16), Lifestyle Characteristics (n 4) and Lactation/Breast-feeding History (n 8). Some demographic characteristics were commonly reported across regions, while other, including gender and race, were infrequently explored. Factors that might influence the composition of DHM, including birth timing (term or pre-term), milk type (colostrum, transition or mature) and maternal diet were not regularly studied. Other gaps in the literature included (1) donors' motivations and barriers to donation, (2) lactation and breast-feeding history, including factors that influence donors to pump and amass surplus milk, and (3) donation patterns, including whether donors are also selling milk to corporations or sharing milk with peers.
conclusionWhat is known about milk bank donors in different geographies is often limited to a single study, with heterogeneity in the variables reported.
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