Author/Editor		Orel, R
Title		Umetna prehrana dojenčkov
Translated title		Formula feeding
Type		članek
Source		Slov Pediatr
Vol. and No.		Letnik 5, št. Suppl 1
Publication year		1998
Volume		str. 38-47
Language		slo
Abstract		When neonate and infant nutrition with human milk is impossible or inadequate artificial formula feeding is the only possibility. Historical review from the first infant formulas in the era of industrial revolution, nutrition with cow's milk, to contemporary milk and no-milk-based infant formulas is given in this article. Contemporary nutritional reccomendations do not reccomend infant feeding with nonadapted cow's milk so deficiencies and weaknesses of such feeding practicies are explained. Mean idea in production of both milk-based and no-milk-based infant formulas is to imitate the composition of human milk. In spite of great progress in technology there is still impossible to imitate all ingredients of human milk, for example, immunologic, grow and differentiation factors, in the formula composition. Nevertheless formulas do have some advantages compared to human milk, because the second is always a nature's compromise between benefits for the child and for the mother. This is particulary truth for some special formulas for very low birth weight and some disseased child nutrition.
Descriptors		INFANT NUTRITION FOOD, FORMULATED MILK INFANT