Tag Archives: nutrition

Is breast-milk really best?

Posted on 11 May 2016 by Keith Barrington

Although many people (including myself) are convinced that human breast milk is the preferable nutrition for human babies, including the preterm, some of the evidence regarding benefits is shaky. For example the evidence that breast milk feeding reduces late-onset sepsis. … Continue reading →

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TPN toxic?

Posted on 28 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Humans, after they are born, are supposed to receive their nutrition via the gut. Before that of course, they receive a continuous infusion of nutrition via the umbilical vein. We are far from having an intravenous nutrition mixture for sick … Continue reading →

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Enhanced Nutrition

Posted on 9 February 2016 by Keith Barrington

Strømmen K, et al. Enhanced Nutrient Supply to Very Low Birth Weight Infants is Associated with Improved White Matter Maturation and Head Growth. Neonatology. 2015;107(1):68-75. This is a report of a secondary outcome of a small RCT, there were only … Continue reading →

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New Publication from the Sainte Justine team

Posted on 13 October 2015 by Keith Barrington

We have just published a new article : The first author Marianne Lapointe is our senior NNP who has been heavily involved in improving nutritional standards in our NICU. She was a leader in developing our enhanced enteral feeding protocols, … Continue reading →

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Growth in the VLBW; could do better!

Posted on 24 August 2015 by Keith Barrington

Among over 300,000 VLBW infants in the Vermont Oxford Network database between 200 and 2013, the weights at discharge were plotted against the Fenton percentiles. Horbar JD, et al. Weight Growth Velocity and Postnatal Growth Failure in Infants 501 to 1500 … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 26 April 2015 by Keith Barrington

There’s been a lot of good stuff published recently, so time for a couple of Neonatal Updates. First the most recent (May) issue of the Archives Fetal and Neonatal edition was packed with interesting publications.(including 2 I have already blogged … Continue reading →

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Brain Food for Preterms

Posted on 18 November 2014 by Keith Barrington

All food is brain food when your brain is making 250,000 new neurones every minute. In a small two-center trial first published in 2013 50 very preterm babies were randomized to different parenteral nutritional intakes. The main differences between the groups … Continue reading →

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Feeding and NEC

Posted on 14 November 2014 by Keith Barrington

Necrotizing Enterocolitis remains a devastating disease. One of the major causes of mortality in Very Low Birth Weight Infants, it often strikes when babies are starting to do well. Because it is relatively unpredictable, observational studies are potentially useful, but can … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates: more nutrition

Posted on 10 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

It is not surprising when I write a blog post about nutrition in the preterm neonate to find that at least one, and on this occasion two, of the articles are from the productive pen of Johannes van Goudoever. Vlaardingerbroek H, … Continue reading →

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Insulin, nutrition, insulin-like growth factors and the retina

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I’d really like to see a good quality review article with that title, there are several that touch on these issues (for example, here and here), but I find the data hard to digest, probably because it is relatively novel … Continue reading →

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