Human milk is the feeding strategy to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis!

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 36-40

  Maffei, Diana ^a,b   Schanler, Richard J ^a,b  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremely preterm infant; Human milk; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Preterm nutrition

Indexed keywords

INTACT BOVINE PROTEIN; MILK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BREAST MILK; CLINICAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DONOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOTHER; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; STOMACH PH; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ANIMAL; BREAST FEEDING; DIET THERAPY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT NUTRITION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BREAST FEEDING; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MILK; MILK, HUMAN; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85006256558     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2016.09.016     Document Type: Review

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