Nutritional Management and Weight Changes during Hospitalization of Brazilian Infants with Diarrhoea: Primary Reliance on Oral Feeding or Continuous Nasogastric Drip with Locally Made, Modulated Minced Chicken Formula
| Autor: | Giesela F. Ferrari, Gilda P. Annicchino, Niura N. A. M. Padula, Tamara Beres Ledere Goldberg, Helga Verena L. Maffei |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Food
Formulated Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Diet therapy business.industry Infant Weight Gain Diarrhea Enteral Nutrition Infectious Diseases Bolus (medicine) Parenteral nutrition Oral administration Weight loss Diarrhea Infantile Weight Loss Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine Humans Infant Food medicine.symptom business Weight gain Brazil Minced chicken |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 36:240-246 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3664 0142-6338 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/tropej/36.5.240 |
| Popis: | The nutritional management of infants admitted with diarrhoea to the University Hospital of Botucatu includes a change from bolus feeding of a modulated minced-chicken formula to a continuous nasogastric drip (NGD) feeding, whenever the required calorie intake is not achieved or the diarrhoea does not subside. To evaluate this approach, the clinical course and weight changes of 63 children, aged 1-20 months, were reviewed; most (81 per cent) were below the third percentile for weight at admission and 76 per cent had a total duration of diarrhoea greater than or equal to 10 days. Associated infections, mainly systemic, were present at or after admission in 70 per cent of them. Twenty-five survivors needed nutritional support (NS), predominantly NGD, for a median duration of 30 per cent of their admission time, and were compared to 31 survivors managed without NS. Those who necessitated NS lost weight for a significantly longer median time (12 x 4 days, p less than 0.005), but their total weight loss was similar (5 x 4 per cent) as well as diarrhoea's duration (8 x 7 days). There was a tendency for a longer hospitalization (21 x 16 days 0.05 less than P less than 0.10) and a longer span to begin weight gain after diarrhoea's end for the group with NS (p less than 0.05), but subsequent growth quotient and daily weight gain during admission were similar for both groups. Both groups of survivors received similar amounts of energy, although the initial increase was delayed for those who needed the NGD.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) |
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