Enfamil Lipil Formula

Specialties NICU

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Hey, ya'll...don't remember where we were talking about this, so I just decided to post a new thread. I found an article on ABC news.com about the new formula (short article) and here is an excerpt:

Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals is now marketing a new line of formula in the United States called Enfamil Lipil that contains two fatty acids-decosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, and arachidonic acid, or ARA-that are naturally occurring elements of breast milk and are believed to play an important role in the development of the brain and the eye.

"What the formula companies are trying to do is get more and more like breast milk, because they realize that it is the gold standard," says Dr. Steven Zeisel, chairman of the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "There is no advantage of this formula over breast milk, but there might be an advantage over other formulas."

Heather333

206 Posts

We started having Lipil stocked in our unit, yet I have never seen a physician order it.

KRVRN, BSN, RN

1,334 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

We're forced to use it, they got rid of all the normal enfamil 20! I personally haven't used though.

Motivated, SN

93 Posts

It's alot more expensive than other formulas and moms can't get it on WIC.

OBNURSEHEATHER

1,961 Posts

We've carried it for a few months now. We don't even stock the other Enfamil anymore.

Heather

OBNURSEHEATHER

1,961 Posts

Oops! Forgot to add, where I'm at, Enfamil isn't a choice for WIC period. Unless you have a script from the ped, you get Similac.

Heather

canoehead, BSN, RN

6,890 Posts

Specializes in ER.

I like Lipil, they get hungry earlier, and move on to transitional stools earlier, but it makes the 24h old cranky babies a lot easier to deal with.

Teshiee

712 Posts

We have started to use it like reg formula in our stock. The babies seem to like it I guess. But it defeats the purpose if the moms can't get it on WIC back to the old breastfeeding.

babynurselsa, RN

1,129 Posts

Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.

Our Enfamil rep says that it is replacing the regular enfamil as the baseline formula.

The cost is not all that much higher, less than a dollar a can, and it makes about one less bottle.

Our WIC program is changing to Carnation Goodstart in January!

NicuGal, MSN, RN

2,743 Posts

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

We don't use Enfamil as they don't carry our WIC program.

I use Carnation Good Start with my DD...she puked everything else except good ole MBM :) And it is loads cheaper too!

Originally posted by NicuGal

We don't use Enfamil as they don't carry our WIC program.

I use Carnation Good Start with my DD...she puked everything else except good ole MBM :) And it is loads cheaper too!

I used Carnation Alsoy. Much cheaper than Isomil!

And our rep said they are phasing out the Term 20 and replacing it with the Lipil. Similac is right behind them.

BBnurse34

209 Posts

We switched to Lipil as our standard. But now I am worried because as an inner city hospital most of out patients will be on WIC. I need to call the formula rep.

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