Gastroenterology and Nutrition

About this book

Part of the Neonatology Questions and Controversies series, with twelve chapters that weigh the evidence on disputed areas of newborn gut care and feeding. Topics include motor maturation and reflux in the preterm infant, development of GI motility reflexes, lipid delivery, human milk oligosaccharides, donor milk trials, necrotising enterocolitis, nutrition for the surgical neonate, short bowel syndrome, lipid strategies for neonatal cholestasis, the gut as a source of systemic inflammation, and adult consequences of early nutrition. Intended for neonatologists, paediatric gastroenterologists and NICU dietitians.