Randomized, controlled trial of breastfeeding versus formula feeding in extremely low birth weight infants.

To the Editor .— We read with great interest the recent article by Schanler et al,1 whose objective was to compare the incidence of late-onset sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), duration of hospitalization, and growth of extremely premature infants who were assigned randomly to receive either pasteurized donor milk (DM) or preterm formula (PF) if the supply of their own maternal milk (MM) was inadequate. They found that, as a substitute of MM, DM offered little short-term advantages over PF for feeding extremely premature infants. We …