The Feeding of Premature Infants
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The feeding of premature infants.
Handicaps Premature babies have certain handicaps due to their incomplete development. Those affecting nutrition include weakness or absence of the sucking or swallowing reflexes, a tendency to inhale regurgitated fluids caused by absence of the coughing reflex, poor absorption of food and inadequate antenatal stores. Management of handicaps. If the sucking and swallowing reflexes are completel...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1079/bjn19520026