Effects of Dextrose Gel in Preventing and Treating Neonatal Hypoglycemia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Neonatal hypoglycemia is one of the major complications in neonatal wards, requiring rapid diagnosis and treatment to prevent its complications. Dextrose gel used as a cheap safe choice. Thus, present systematic review meta-analysis study aimed investigate effects oral dextrose preventing treating hypoglycemia. To find relevant articles, national databases, including Barekat Gostar, SID, Magiran, IranDoc, international PubMed, Scopus, Web Science, Cochrane, Google Scholar were consulted with standard keywords. The data analyzed using STATA 14 software, while P value < 0.05 was considered significant. In 9 articles sample size 8755 neonates, mean weight ranged from 2890 3669 g. share neonates born through normal vaginal delivery equaled 61%, 16% had low birth (below 2500 g), high (above 4500 51% diabetic mothers, 20% premature, 88% singleton. Oral reduced risk by OR=0.83 (95% CI: 0.75-0.93). However, an OR=0.78 0.57-1.07), which not statistically effective