TRACKABLE, CONTROLLABLE, INDIVIDUALIZED REFRIGERATOR FOR

BREAST MILK TECHNICAL FIELD

Invention is about a refrigerator which provides keeping the breast milk in proper conditions (in temperatures lower than 4 centigrade degrees) and minimizes possibility of milks to confuse with each other and deteriorating because of excessive openings of the door of the refrigerator, comprises personal cabinets with combination and which can also inform the user and send reports.

PRIOR ART

Refrigerators are collectively used for newborns in hospitals and neonatal units. If it is thought that a newborn is fed approximately 10 times a day with 2-3 hours intervals, the door of a refrigerator in a neonatal intensive care unit with 20 beds are faced with the risk of opening up to 200 times a day. Besides, in these units breast milk coexists with medicine, insulin etc. and that increases the number of the opened door.

Collective usage of refrigerators in neonatal units and continuous opening of the door of refrigerators increase the internal temperature of the refrigerator and it causes the deterioration of breast milk which is a very important resource for children. However, working women need to milk themselves and store that milk in proper conditions without deterioration. There are no kinds of refrigerator which can be used for that purpose.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Invention is about a refrigerator which provides storing the breast milk sterilized that is an essential nutritional source for newborns, protection of its temperature and preventing it from deterioration. It can also give brief information about the stored milk and send warning to user via SMS in necessary situations. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The existence of any problems about the mother or her baby and the situation of being apart because of that problem prevent breastfeeding of some babies. Increased maternal age, the widespread use of assisted reproductive techniques, multiple pregnancies are the factors that increase the risk of premature birth.

All over the world, an increase is observed in the number of premature births and low birth weight infants in recent years. Premature and low birth- weight babies are having suction and therefore nutrition problems. Although breastfeeding is the right of all children to achieve the required health standards, there is a right of access to non-breastfed children safe and healthy food supply.

The World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health suggest feeding babies only with breast milk in the first six months after their birth without giving any additional food including water. After the baby is six months, they suggest of the initiation of liquid and solid additional food, besides that complementary foods to continue breastfeeding at least up to two years.

Breast milk, is the optimal food for infants who is kept under special care separate from their mothers due to health problems and it is also an incomparable source for antimicrobials and other protectors.

An important part of brain development in the womb and during the period in the first year of life is completed. A timely born baby's brain weights 350 g but its weight in the first year of life increased 750 g and reaches a total of 1 .1 kg.

In the early stages of development, for cellular growth and cleavage of the nervous system, long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are required and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants that is fed with breast milk is better.

Breast milk contains macrophages, lymphocytes, neutrophils, immunoglobulin A and bifidus factor. With this content, it provides protection against the Escherichiacol, enteroviruses, enterotoxins and other gastrointestinal diseases caused by pathogens. The proteins found in breast milk can be easily digested and the calcium in it can be absorbed more easily. Breast milk is a complete food for infants and a well-fed mother's milk can meet all the vitamins needed by the baby.

Breastfeeding should start in the first half an hour from the birth and should be continued. Babies must be fed frequently (every 2-3 hours) to stimulate the maternal milk production. The first milk of the mothers must be milked by hand or pump and lactation should be started within 24 hours and in the first two weeks, including the night, should be milked at intervals of 2-3 hours, whose babies are very small and sick that do not get mother's milk. Infants less than 1000 grams are fed with two hour intervals but older babies are fed at intervals of three hours and this is a physiological diet. Due to this shortness of intervals and frequency of feeding, breast milk storage necessity is vital for sick and premature babies in neonatal care unit. Besides the neonatal intensive care units, the storage of breast milk is also a necessity for working mothers. Properly collecting and storing of the mother's breast milk contributes to longer breast-feeding in situations that require the separation of the baby and the mother. Female employees have requirements of storing in proper conditions, monitoring and auditing their milks to feed their babies up to the age of 2.

After the amendments in the 61 1 1 numbered law; "The woman officer is permitted to breast feed her children three hours a day for the first six months from the date of expiry of the period of maternity after birth and for the second six months one hour and a half in a day. In the usage of maternity leave, what time of the day and how many times in a day, prefer of the female officer is essential." provision was introduced.

When the laws are considered, working women need to milk themselves and store their milk in a suitable environment without deterioration. Due to the loss of nutritional value of stored milk and bacterial growth are feared to be harmful to the baby. Studies show that the milk can be safely used if it is stored in the proper conditions. The content of the breast milk can be affected from the storage cup. Its cellular content is adhered to the wall of glass cups but not to the polyethylene or polypropylene cup walls. Immunological properties of the milk are reduced by the storage method. The milk enzymes such as lysozyme and lactoperoxidase are known to have a bacteriostatic effect. Presence or protective effects of these factors to the baby defense, depends on the type of storage of the milk. Changes in the structure of stored milk begins in step of collection and the storage temperature, the room temperature, the refrigerator or the freezer have various effects on the milk. Bacteriological examination shows that the mother's milk obtained in clean conditions can be stored in the refrigerator up to 72 hours.

It is very important to deliver the breast milk to the newborn after being kept under aseptic conditions without losing the nutritional value of it. The basic principles to be followed while storing the breast milk are, milked milk in aseptic conditions is taken into a sterile milk storage bag and closed tightly. The milk is stored in small containers with amounts that the baby can drink. Baby's name and date written on each bagged milk. Milked milk can be stored in the refrigerator up to 72 hours without getting frozen and the frozen milk can be stored up to 24 hours thawed (in between +1 C and +4 C).

Greatest fear associated with storage is contamination in milk, proliferation of infectious pathogens and the use of unsafe milks. But the ideal nutrition to give the baby is breast milk. For that reason, the best protection environment has to be developed for breast milk.

To eliminate the mentioned necessities and problems we developed of an invention. This invention is a refrigerator which; comprises cabinets, according to hospital capacity, in the number of newborns; comprise doors which isolate the separated cabinets having 1 liters of volume; has doors that have combinations defined by the user; internal temperature of the refrigerator, protocol number of the newborn, name of the newborn and the hospitalization date are shown on it; comprises a screen panel that shows daily, weekly and monthly door opening frequency and the amount of time that every time it remains open; sensitively detects the amount of the breast milk in the cabinets with the sensitive weight sensors placed below the cabinets, can give an alarm when the door remains opened too long and not closed completely; can send SMS to mother including the date, time and the amount of the milk after the baby is fed; can connect to the hospital automation and gives the hospital management and the quality unit an opportunity to observe and control.

The usage of the refrigerator that has a possibility to use at hospitals and homes which comprises cabinets in the number of the hospital capacity can overcome the problems that are faced with the today's technique mentioned below:

- The necessity of opening of the refrigerator for every take

- Increasing of the inner temperature of the refrigerator in every opening and increased risk of deterioration

- Confusing the milks with each other that belong to different mothers

- Because of not calculating any values, the milk amount that is given to baby remains unclear

- Because of storing non-milk products in the refrigerator, having problems about the hygiene and number of opening and closing numbers of the door.

The doors of the separate cabinets are opened for only to take the related baby's milk and that reduces the rise of inner temperature to minimum during the door openings. Thus, babies can be protected from the adverse effects caused by storing the breast milk in lack of proper conditions such as diarrhea, loss of nutritional value and malnutrition. In conjunction with the doors being encrypted, storage of other objects in the cabinets can be prevented and confusion that may occur with other mothers of milk can be avoided.

The invention can be connected with the hospital automation system through software and it is capable of reporting the required information when necessary.

The amount of added or diminished breast milk can be automatically calculated by the software in the refrigerator with cabinets that are individualized with sensitive weight sensors.

At the end of the day (or at specified time period) how much breast milk is added to the individual cabinet and how much breast milk is taken out of the cabinet can be seen. The system can establish an internet connection via software to provide information to mother through mobile phone by text messages via internet.