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CASTRO, María J et al. Nutritional manaement of preterm newborn. Arch Venez Puer Ped [online]. 2013, vol.76, n.3, pp.109-116. ISSN 0004-0649.

The nutrition of the premature or low birth weight newborn is a challenge for the pediatrician and neonatologist from birth and up to advanced childhood. One of the biggest challenges is to keep a weight gain similar to fetal growth until the neonate achieves 40 weeks of postconcepcional age, and subsequently achieve a growth rate that guarantees, eventually, the goal of a length according to chronological age, proper bone mineralization and an optimal neurodevelopment. All these goals can be reached with the early commencement of enteral feeding, even with trophic nutrition in those hard-to-feed infants without contraindication to eat; the use of human milk, supplementation or fortification when the requirements are higher, and/or weight gain is too low and with the appropriate follow-up of the anthropometric and biochemical measurements that evidence a healthy growth.

Palabras clave : Newborn; Premature newborn; Low birth weight newborn; Feeding; Nutrition.

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