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How to Provide Breast Milk for the Preterm Infant and Avoid Symptomatic Cytomegalovirus Infection with Possible Long-Term Sequelae

Life 2022, 12(4), 504; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12040504
by Bernhard Resch 1,2
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Life 2022, 12(4), 504; https://doi.org/10.3390/life12040504
Submission received: 14 March 2022 / Revised: 25 March 2022 / Accepted: 26 March 2022 / Published: 30 March 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pediatric Nutrition for a Healthy Life)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

It's my honor to review this article. It is interesting.

This article is relatively comprehensive, so that we can understand the knowledge related to breast feeding premature infants with CMV.  

However, I have a small suggestion that the literatures cited are too old. Of the 65 literatures cited, only 26 were in the last 10 years, and some of them are from the last century. This article would be more meaningful if it could cite the latest literature.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

How to provide breast milk for the preterm infant and avoid symptomatic cytomegalovirus  is constantly controversial and unsolved problem. The author approached this issue very detail. The paper has form of review moved many aspects affecting CMV infection and relationships related to breastfeeding and human milk. Dilemmas related to the benefits of the golden standard, which is mother's milk and possibility to be a source of symptomatic CMV infection   and neurological sequelae a very important clinical problem. The author cites many studies documenting postnatal  CMV infection due to virus transmission into breast milk. In order to make it easier for clinicians to make nutritional decisions in preterm newborns, the author presents the position of the AAP from 2018.  AAP recommends for mothers of preterm infants born at less than 32 weeks of gestational age serological CMV screening, and for those being CMV-seropositive short-term pasteurization of breast milk. The presented algorithm seems to be particularly useful clinically. The conclusions are a summary of the presented pointing and indicate that Short-term heat inactivation for 5 seconds at 62C  has  the benefits of feeding breast milk without the disadvantages of CMV transmission. The author's considerations are based on a very rich literature covering 65  very well selected references. 

Author Response

Thank you for the overall positive comments on the manuscript.

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