The study, “Exclusive Human Milk Diets and the Reduction of Necrotizing Enterocolitis,” compared NEC incidence in VLBW infants before and after a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) switched from a ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains one of the most severe gastrointestinal emergencies affecting preterm infants. It is characterised by inflammation and necrosis of the intestinal wall, with ...

Providing human breast milk to preterm infants is a strategy for preventing complications including necrotizing enterocolitis. Because a mother's own milk (considered the gold standard) is not always ...

(WISH) — Almost 400,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the United States. The smaller they are, the more medical problems they can have, including one very dangerous complication that kills ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal inflammatory disease that can affect premature or otherwise medically fragile infants during their first weeks and months of life. Upon ...

May 11, 2007 — Probiotic supplements might reduce the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates, according to the results of a study reported in the May 12 issue of The Lancet. "Results of ...

Neonatologist shares how breast milk improves survival and health outcomes in fragile newborns and why Austin is the leader ...

Maybe probiotics would have saved my son’s life. I’ll never know because when I asked Micah’s care team to consider probiotics to counter the deluge of antibiotics, I was dismissed as senseless. My ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a debilitating and deadly condition that affects infants who were born preterm. In NEC cases, intestinal tissues become inflamed, and in severe cases there is ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a debilitating and deadly condition that affects infants who were born preterm. In NEC cases, intestinal tissues become inflamed, and in severe cases there is ...

DUARTE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A landmark systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Nutrients has found that an Exclusive Human Milk Diet (EHMD) with Prolacta ...