Department of Neonatology, Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad, India
Research Article
First Week Protein and Energy Intake and its Effect on Growth at Hospital Discharge and at Term Gestation in Very Preterm Infants on Exclusive Human Milk Feeding
Author(s): Dattatray Kulkarni*, Dinesh Pawale and Srinivas Murki
In a unit with aggressive enteral and parenteral nutritional policy, the actual calorie and protein intakes of preterm
infants are less than targeted. In this large cohort of infants with gestation <33 weeks, when aggressive TPN was the
routine and enteral feeding was aggressive and with only human milk feeding, the average calorie intake and the
protein intake was very much less than the recommended daily allowance... View more»