Beal D, Ashdown L R, Mackay M
Med J Aust. 1978 Jan 14;1(1):8-10.
The development of a human milk bank with nursing mothers as donors of human milk is described. Breast milk is collected manually, and as aseptically as possible, by the mother in the privacy of her home, and the milk is transported frozen to the milk bank by a member of the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia. A sample of expressed milk is also collected and sent to the Microbiology Department of the Australian Government Health Laboratory for bacteriological examination. The milk bank is suitably located in the paediatric ward of the Townsville General Hospital. Human milk which has been classed as bacteriologically safe is given untreated to hospitalized infants in preference to formula milk. The result is a human milk bank which is administered under medical and microbiological control.
本文描述了一个以哺乳期母亲作为母乳捐赠者的母乳库的发展情况。母乳由母亲在自己家中私密的环境下手动采集，且尽可能无菌采集，采集后的母乳由澳大利亚母乳协会的成员冷冻运输至母乳库。同时，还会采集一份挤出的母乳样本，送至澳大利亚政府健康实验室微生物科进行细菌学检测。该母乳库位于汤斯维尔综合医院的儿科病房。经细菌学检测判定为安全的母乳，会直接提供给住院婴儿，优先于配方奶。最终建成了一个在医学和微生物学管控下的母乳库。
