Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, October 7, 1983
Human milk made into powder
by Darla Bucaram
Battalion Reporter
Five years ago the Baylor Col
lege of Medicine and Texas
A&M University were asked to
develop a technique which
would change human milk into a
powdered form for premature
babies.
Mother’s milk, with all of its
health-giving properties, is now
available in a powder form be
cause of research done hy the
Baylor College of Medicine, the
Texas A&M Food Sciences De
partment and The University of
Texas Medical Branch at Gal
veston.
Dr Charles Dill, professor of
food sciences in Texas A&M’s
College of Agriculture and head
researcher for the project here,
says that before mother’s milk
was converted to powder, hos
pitals kept a supply of frozen
milk.
However, the National Insti
tute of Child Care and Human
Development was concerned be
cause the milk was not pasteu-
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rized, and could carry patholo
gical — disease-carrying — bac
teria, he says.
For this reason, the institute
requested research be done to
change mother’s milk into a
powder form, he says.
Premature babies are fragile
organisms without the immune
systems needed to protect them
from contracting diseases, Dill
says. Mother’s milk, with its
health-giving properties, pro
tects the premature baby against
infection, he says. It is because of
this that mother’s milk is so im
portant, Dill says.
Research assistant Edna
Alford says the milk is donated
by healthy mothers.
Some women have four or
five times the amount of milk
their babies need, Alford says.
These women are given an elec
tric pump which they take home
with them. They put the milk in
plastic or glass containers and
store it in the freezer until it can
be taken to the hospital, she says.
“Some women won’t donate
their milk because they want to
give it all to their baby, even if
the baby can’t drink it all,”
Alford says.
Dill says the food science de
partment at Texas A&M is re
sponsible for the technological
process which converts the milk
into powder.
The University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston
provided the immunologists
who made sure the immunology
components of the milk were
still in the milk after it had been
processed, Dill says.
The milk is collected from
mothers at Texas Children’s
Hospital in Houston and sent to
the Texas A&M laboratories,
Dill says. Here, the milk is pro
cessed into powder and then
sent back in plastic pouches
lined with aluminum foil, he
says.
Pediatricians from the Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston
then change the milk back to its
liquid form at The Texas Chil
dren’s Hospital, Dill says. 1'hey
do this by mixing the powder
with milk from the babies natu
ral mother, or with sterile water,
depending on the amount of
calories and proteins the baby
needs.
Alford says the milk is used
only for premature babies or
toddlers who are allergic to ev
erything they eat exept human
milk. It will not be a convenience
product you can buy at the groc
ery store, she says.
Milk banks will be set up
which will supply human milk in
powdered form to pediatricians
and neonate centers — centers
for newborn babies, Dill says.
The two neonate hospitals in
Texas are Scott and White Hos
pital in Temple and The Texas
Children’s Hospital in Houston.
So far, those are the only hospit
als in the nation which have pow
dered human milk, he says.
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Agriculture holds reunion barbetjut F e says
The College of Agriculture will hold its annual Rein
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Barbeque Saturday three hours before the footballga*
will l>e held at the new Animal Science Pavilion on Jen
Street west of the Horse Center. The National
Marketing Association is sponsoring the dinner, andtiti
can Ixt purchased at the College of Agriculture Deansol
or from NAM A members. Students and former studeniii
agriculture are encouraged to attend.
BBQ
Students win Wright scholarships
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by David Mam
Battalion Report
The third annual B
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Nine Texas A&M students have received W, Venn *t ur <tay at the Grov
Wright Petroleum Asphalt Scholarships. Chosen fori fy ‘ O l> owir jg the e
$500awards were Robert Briggs of Huntingdon, Peniiijii P erslt y Houstc
nia; Doree Gilbeau of Houston; James Heath of Topti une '
Kansas; William Heckel of Dallas; Kenneth Kolodoiitu [Arthur Collier, owi
Brian Pinkowski, both of San Antonio; Donnie Johnsoi er Electric Co. in Br)
Paris, Texas; Bobby Littlefield of Sulphur Springs; amlj: unored at the barbe<
fery Mezger of Marble Falls. lip in providing e
All are civil engineering majors except Johnson, amai|id supplies for const
ing student, and Pinkowski, who is studying engine! |e bonfire during p<
technology. BPrevious barbecue
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Dance Arts weekly classes scheduled | dent an , d ,? a 1 n ^ nl
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The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Thursday:
THEFTS:
• A blue Schwinn 10-speed
bicycle from the Mosher Hall
bike rack.
• A man’s gold and diamond
ring from the third floor of
Sterling C. Evans Library. The
owner was away from the desk
where he left the ring.
• A purse from a women’s
dressing room in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. The purse contained
a Texas A&M I.D. card, shuttle-
bus pass, checkbook, keys and a
Dillard’s credit card.
ASSAULT:
• A man assaulted two
women in Hughes Hall sepa
rately within two hours and 30
Brought in decades 1
minutes. One student was# animals’ feed soui
ing past the man in thesu# The bill was una
between the third and passed by the Sene
floors of Hughes Hall ghiendment to the I
second student walkedpaif'obacco Adjustmer
in a Fowler Hall breezewa .(983.
women identified theniat« Sen. Lloyd Ben
a police picture line-up Texas, told his colleag
man, who previouslyrece|ost taxpyaers $48
trespass warning, was ar annually to store the e
by University Police and tithe Russian grain eml
Brazos County Jail. He f it is of to poor quality
voluntary statement, Un» or use in the Paymer
Police said. ‘program.
/“Livestock produce
OTHER: desperate need of feed
A secretary in the Ckj“What better use could
gineering Department hai aged grain be put to th
receiving obscene teltfBde emergency feed
calls at work. She said the|Ho livestock prod
also has started calling li drought areas?
home. F “Livestock produce:
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