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Natalia Isaza Brando

Natalia Isaza Brando

Children's National Health System, USA

Title: The use of breast milk in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Biography

Biography: Natalia Isaza Brando

Abstract

I will intend to cover during the talk: The bioactive components in human milk that influence the immune status of newborns; the physiological and protective functions of the immune components in human milk: Anti-microbial substances and antibodies; the constituents in breast milk that promote tolerance and priming of the immune system in the newborn; how breastfeeding provides passive and long-lasting active immunity; how the use of oral immunotherapy with colostrum in the first days of life of sick newborns can improve their response to infections in the NICU; how human milk can improve the incidence of nosocomial infections in the NICU.