World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A CONCEPT OF DHATRI (WET NURSE) - AN ANCIENT SCIENCE IN MODERN WORLD. W.S.R. HUMAN MILK BANK

Dr. Rahul Gameti*, Dr.Pooja Vihariya, Dr. V. K. Kori and Prof. K. S. Patel

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is the internal science of life. The knowledge is never static, stagnation is detrimental it has to flow continuously, discarding old or unacceptable ideas and incorporating newer one, so is the case with Ayurveda, rather with every branch of Ayurveda. multitude of advances in medical science have necessitated reorganisation or re thinking about old concept of ancient science which have very scientific fundamental and very bless full for today’s era. Breastfeeding is a feature of our human design whereby newborn babies get the nutrition, immunity and nurturing required for growth and development. If the mother does not have enough breast milk or if she is sick or her milk is grossly vitiated, in that case wet nurse would or dhatri would be required. In some cultures wet nurses were slaves or as today, many are employed allowing mothers freedom to work or pursue a lifestyle choice. In this situation human milk replace with human milk. It is better to employ a wet nurse as no other milk can be compared with mother's milk for proper growth and development of the child. Likely dhatri today newly developed human milk bank both aims to nutrition newborn babies. So, human milk bank correlated with dhatri the fundamental of ancient science. Milk banks store breast milk for newborns whose mums can’t breastfeed them. Usually, the banks collect expressed breast milk from pre-screened mums, who have a plentiful milk supply.

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