Protein-Fortified Milk in Premature Infants

In Reply.— We thank Greer for his interest in the role of human milk protein supplementation on the growth of human milk-fed very low-birth-weight infants.1 In fact, this has not been investigated earlier. The weekly weight gains of the supplemented and unsupplemented infants are shown in the Figure. There was no difference between the groups during the first 4 weeks, whereas the differences at 5 and 6 weeks were significant (K.A.R. Rönnholm, J. Perheentupa, and M. Siimes, unpublished data, 1985).