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Designing and developing a working prototype for measuring the flowrate and composition of human breast milk
Lammens, Vera (2024) Designing and developing a working prototype for measuring the flowrate and composition of human breast milk.
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| Abstract: | Human breast milk has a lot of benefits regarding the health of both infant and mother, both in short and long term. Despite all these benefits, a lot of mothers discontinue breastfeeding and start giving formula. The main reason for mothers to discontinue breastfeeding is (perception of) insufficient milk supply. At this moment, tools for directly estimating the milk intake are lacking. The aim is to design and develop a working prototype for measuring the volume and composition of human breast milk. This is necessary for getting a better understanding of the lactation process in terms of the milk volume consumed and its time-varying composition during a breastfeed. The research question of this thesis is: what does an optimal design of a prototype look like that is able to measure the flowrate and composition of human breast milk in lab setting? To answer this question, identification of the stakeholders and their interests was needed for creating the list of requirements. These requirements were used for the concept development. By testing the prototype with semi-skimmed milk and fresh milk from a local farm, a comparison between the two samples could be made for validating the performance of the prototype. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | TNW: Science and Technology |
| Subject: | 30 exact sciences in general, 44 medicine |
| Programme: | Biomedical Technology BSc (56226) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/99673 |
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