Exposure to the smell and taste of milk to accelerate feeding in preterm infants.

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Exposure to the smell and taste of milk to accelerate feeding in preterm infants.

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BACKGROUND:Preterm infants are often unable to co-ordinate sucking, swallowing and breathing for oral feeding because of their immaturity; in such cases, initial nutrition is provided by orogastric or nasogastric tube feeding. Feed intolerance is common and can delay attainment of full enteral feeds and sucking feeds, which prolongs the need for intravenous nutrition and hospital stay. Smell and taste play an important role in the activation of physiological pre-absorptive processes that cont...

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Date created

2019-07-16

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Muelbert, Mariana / Lin, Luling / Bloomfield, Francis / Harding, Jane

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/47679

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Humans / Weight Gain / Intubation, Gastrointestinal / Sucking Behavior / Smell / Taste / Infant, Newborn / Infant, Premature / Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena

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