TITLE:
Neonatal Nutrition and Later Outcomes of Very Low Birth Weight and Preterm Infants
AUTHORS:
Conceição Costa, Teresa Torres, Andreia Teles
KEYWORDS:
Growth, Parenteral Nutrition, Preterm Infant, Very Low Birth Weight
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Pediatrics,
Vol.5 No.3,
August
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: Premature infants,
especially those born with less than 1500 g, often exhibit slow overall growth.
Lack of early nutritional support is an important element. The present authors
describe parenteral nutritional practices in a tertiary hospital and
evaluate postnatal growth of preterm infants under 32 weeks of gestational age
or with a birth weight th day was 425 g. At discharge, 37%
were rd month 20% had their
weight under P3, decreasing to 10% by the 12th month. Children who
initiated PN in the first 24 hours of life had significantly better weight on
the 30th day of their life (p th month of corrected age (p = 0.038). And they had better Body Mass Index (BMI)
in the 3rd (p = 0.012) and 12th (p = 0.023) months. Despite
better feeding practices, there is still significant failure in post natal
growth. Early introduction of PN was associated with an improved weight gain,
which suggests that nutrition that included amino acids may be critical during
the first 24 hours of life.