Thickening milk feeds may cause necrotising enterocolitis
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK, M6 8HD; paul.clarke@srht.nhs.uk
Extremely low birthweight infants have the highest risk of developing necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). We report on two infants who developed fatal NEC while established on enteral feeds. A common antecedent was recent treatment with Carobel.
An 820 g boy and a 752 g girl, both of 25 weeks gestation, were fully established on enteral feeds with expressed breast milk by day 12 and 18 respectively. Non-specific symptoms were attributed to gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR), …
