TY - JOUR T1 - Own mother’s milk significantly decreases the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/eb-2017-102781 SP - ebnurs-2017-102781 AU - Amy Hair Y1 - 2017/11/25 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2017/11/24/eb-2017-102781.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Patel AL, Johnson TJ, Robin B, et al. Influence of own mother’s milk on bronchopulmonary dysplasia and costs. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2017;102:F256-61Strategies concentrating on increasing the use of own mother’s milk (OMM) for very low birth weight (VLBW) infants should be encouraged and a focus in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Future research studies should focus on the impact of OMM on other morbidities of prematurity affecting VLBW infants.OMM has substantial health benefits for VLBW infants including decreased sepsis, necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and retinopathy of prematurity.1 2 Limited studies have evaluated the effects of OMM on the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in … ER -