NCT04453982

Is COVID-19 Transmitted Through Human Milk? Implications for Breastfeeding and Human Milk Banking-Study 1b

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 384 (actual)
• Sponsor: Deborah O'Connor · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends breastfeeding during COVID-19 infection. Human milk is the best form of infant nutrition providing significant protection against many illnesses for term and preterm infants. When mothers of hospitalized infants are unable to supply their milk, the recommended supplement is human donor milk. The impact of a pandemic on human milk banking is unknown. This study seeks to address this public health issue. Donor milk will be collected from the Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank at Sinai Health System in Toronto. Samples will be analyzed for the COVID-19 virus specific nucleic acid and antibody in real-time and results will be immediately disseminated to relevant organizations to inform local, national and international guidelines surrounding donor milk banking to protect the health of infants.

Conditions

• Sars-CoV2
• Breastmilk

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Human milk donors	Human milk donors for the Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-21
• Primary completion: 2023-04-27
• Completion: 2023-04-27
• First posted: 2020-07-01
• Last updated: 2025-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada