Human milk is alkaline, and even if kept for a considerable time it shows little tendency to become sour.
If the child had been fed on cow's milk the symptoms may be due to the gastric juice not having been able to dissolve the curd, which you will remember is much firmer than that of human milk as well as twice as abundant.
The coagulum of human milk is soft and flocculent, and not so thoroughly separated from the other elements of the fluid, as the firm hard coagulum or curd of cow's milk becomes from the whey in which it floats.
Milk thus prepared closely resembles human milk in appearance, and its casein is so digested that it is either not precipitated by acids or is precipitated, like that of human milk, in flakes.
If for any reason peptonized milk be not employed, milk prepared in the way I have mentioned, by admixture with a farinaceous substance, is probably the next best substitute for human milk.
The difference in quality of the casein of human and animal milk is well known, since that of human milk coagulates in the stomach in flakes, and that of animal milk in firm and large masses.
Human milk is discussed in detail in the chapter on Infancy.
The albumin in human milk is largely of a kind which is not coagulated by souring, while nearly all the albumin in cow's milk coagulates.
Cow's milk contains practically the same chemical elements as are found in human milk, but these elements are combined in a slightly different manner, and are not so easily handled by the immature organs.
MILK A large number of analyses of human and cow's milk are averaged by Holt as follows, Jersey milk being excluded because of its excessive fat: HUMAN MILK.
Microscopically, human milk is a fairly homogeneous emulsion of fat, and is practically destitute of cellular elements.
The reaction of human milk is slightly alkaline; of cow's, neutral or slightly acid.
Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.
The effect on human milk production of diets containing various forms and quantities of protein.
The first point to be borne in mind is that the vitamine content of either cow or human milk is dependent primarily upon the food eaten by the producer of the milk.
Problems connected with the collection and production of human milk.
Human milk is perfectly adapted to the wants of the infant; and all substitutes, though carefully designed to duplicate it, are only partially successful.
That newborn infants thrive better on human milk than on any other nourishment is a conviction that must come home to every one who has had even a limited experience.
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