Human Milk Feeding Enhances the Urinary Excretion of Immunologic Factors in Low Birth Weight Infants
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Feeding of low birth weight infants.
Optimal feeding of low birth weight (LBW) infants improves their immediate survival and subsequent growth and development. Being a heterogeneous group comprising term and preterm neonates, their feeding abilities, fluid and nutritional requirements are quite different from normal birth weight infants. A practical approach to feeding a LBW infant including choice of initial feeding method, progr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198902000-00021