Lactation College Blog: HMOs - Hail to the Chief
March 14, 2023
We post a new Blog every Monday on our sister site, Lactation College. This week’s blog, HMOs: Hail to the Chief, is about human milk oligossacharides - what they are, what they do and why they are worthy of striking up the band.
The only way I made it through medical school was by using acronyms to remember facts. I came up with “PIDEN Seal” to remember HMO facts. PIDEN sounds like BIDEN, get it?
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On the Lactation College site you can also find a one-hour course, Human Milk Compositions, given by me! This one-hour course costs $14, and provides 1 L-CERP (Development and Nutrition), 1 CEU and 1 CME credit.
I love this acronym ! So helpful.
If I may offer an editor's note - Oligo assuredly does not mean "many", it means "few". Poly means "many". So oligo falls somewhere between mono and poly. Think of oligohydramnios - the condition where there is only a small amount of amniotic fluid.