... enteral nutrition is associated with a higher risk for adverse outcomes in extremely preterm infants. Limited evidence exists on therapeutic options to support meconium evacuation and increase gastrointestinal motility. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of macrogol on feeding tolerance...

...Ekaterina Dianova; Nara S. Higano; Kera M. McNelis; Shelley R. Ehrlich; Chunyan Liu; Jason C. Woods; Paul S. Kingma Introduction: Restricted fetal and neonatal growth is a known risk factor for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in premature infants. However, the impact of nutrition and infant growth...

...Maggie Jerome; Emily Gunawan; Natalia Aristizabal; Paula Chandler-Laney; Ariel A. Salas Introduction: For preterm infants, the first 2 weeks after birth are a time when nutrition and protein intake is variable and often falls below recommended intakes. Our objective was to investigate...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Clinical trial Nutrition Clinical outcomes Uncertainty exists regarding the optimal supplement for very preterm infants when the mother’s own milk (MM...

.... 2023 Inflammation Premature infant Nutrition LCPUFA Fetal and postnatal inflammation is associated with increased mortality and adverse outcomes in extremely preterm infants [ 1 ]. A better understanding of the mechanisms behind inflammation is important for improved neonatal care...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2022 Clinical trial Nutrition Anthropometrics Electrolyte disturbances Postnatal growth Neurodevelopment Premature infants NIH Between September 2016 and June 2017, sixty infants were randomized. Baseline...

...-invasive respiratory support Nutrition Oxygen supplementation Patent ductus arteriosus Preterm infant Respiratory distress syndrome Surfactant therapy Thermoregulation Survival of preterm infants continues to improve, with those at 22–23 weeks of gestation now having reasonable chances...

... true for the premature infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experiencing an extraordinarily rapid physiological growth affected by a complex interaction of various ante- and postnatal factors such as pregnancy and neonatal morbidities, environment, ethnic background, and nutrition [8...

... considerations. Protocols for optimising general care of infants with RDS are also essential with good temperature control, careful fluid and nutritional management, maintenance of perfusion and judicious use of antibiotics all being important determinants of best outcome. [email protected]...

...Line Hedegaard Toftlund; Susanne Halken; Lone Agertoft; Gitte Zachariassen Background: Breastfeeding promotes healthy growth in very-preterm-born infants (VPI), but extra nutritional supply is needed to ensure catch-up growth and brain development. Objectives: To investigate how different types...

... in promoting enteral nutrition and growth in preterm infants merits a larger trial powered to detect important outcomes. [email protected] Statistical analyses were conducted using SAS v9.4 (SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC, USA). All statistical tests were 2-sided, with significance taken...

... care of infants with RDS are also essential with good temperature control, careful fluid and nutritional management, maintenance of perfusion and judicious use of antibiotics all being important determinants of best outcome. Antenatal steroids Continuous positive airway pressure Evidence-based...

... group that received standard nutritional care. At 5 months' corrected age the infants were examined using VERP to investigate the responses to global form and motion. VERP were analysed at the first (f1) and third (f3) harmonics of the stimulus frequency. Results: Data from 31 subjects were eligible...

... between fetal growth, illness severity, nutritional intake and growth at 36 weeks' PMA. Results: Weight z-score decreased significantly in all infants during the first 5 weeks of life from -0.92 ± 0.66 at birth to -1.89 ± 0.65 at 5 weeks. The variation of weight z-score during the first 5 weeks of life...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Premature infant Nutrition Growth velocity...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Feeding advancement Infant, premature Nutrition Enteral feeding Early neonatal growth Despite encouraging results supporting more rapid enteral feeding (EF...

... reduced intake is known to be associated with worse long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes [1], it may be difficult to supply adequate calories during this period. In particular, enteral nutrition is often very difficult for days or even weeks in the most nutritionally delicate infants. Intravenous lipid...

...Victor Fernández; Rodrigo Pascual; Samuel Ruíz Sprague-Dawley albino rats were subjected to an experimental paradigm in which environmental and nutritional variables were studied from birth to day 18. The use of Golgi-Cox-Sholl methodology allowed quantitative evaluations of neurons which were...

... concentrations with intravenous hyperalimentation. We prospectively identified and studied 10 infants with PPHN who were not receiving protein or amino acids for at least 24 h and compared their plasma arginine concentrations to 8 control infants without PPHN given similar nutrition. Plasma arginine...

... of their illness. We studied the safety and benefit of early minimal enteral feedings during this time in a prospective, controlled, and randomized study. Twenty-nine infants were randomly assigned to receive only standard intravenous fluid and nutrition (nothing per OS, NPO group; n = 13), or in addition...