Breast milk banks are a reality in Mexico

• April 18, 2024

The project to create two human milk banks in Mexico, which has been working for two years, will be a reality in 2012.

According to Undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of Health , from the Ministry of Health (Ssa), Mauricio Hernández Ávila, the opening of the banks will be next year.

The purpose of these places is to provide the benefits of breastmilk to newborns, who for some reason can not be breastfed; that is, those who have very low birth weight, those operated by malformations gastrointestinal or whom your moms, for disease or for some other reason, they are not able to breastfeed.

According to information published by excelsior.com.mx, Hernández Ávila explained that the process is currently in the phase of Mexicanization of the Brazilian model, which has been replicated in countries such as Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile.

In these centers milk is subjected to a process of pasteurization that eliminates all germs , including the HIV (HIV), but that allows to preserve all nutrients and immune factors, which have proven to decrease the mortality children and have a beneficial impact until adulthood.

To be a donor one must be a healthy woman, who at the moment of breast-feed have an excess of milk, that is, higher than the demands of your child.

In addition, you should not take medications contraindicated for lactation and have the negative tests to hepatitis , HIV Y syphilis .

The promotion of milk donation is carried out with campaigns similar to those carried out with the blood donation .

In this way, Mexico will join the countries that have already adopted the strategy accredited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the most effective ways to reduce infant mortality .

According to data from the Ssa, the introduction of liquids and foods other than breast milk during the first six months of life is responsible for at least 10% of the burden of disease in children under six years of age.

In fact, the Pan American Health Organization (OPS) estimates that the risk of dying in children under one year, fed artificially, is three to five times higher than for babies fed to the mother's breast.

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