The fifty billion dollar question: does formula cause necrotizing enterocolitis? DOI Creative Commons
Mark A. Underwood

Journal of Perinatology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 26, 2025

Abstract The question of whether preterm infant formulas cause necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the subject multiple lawsuits and has daily relevance in care infants. Research supporting hypothesis that toxic components formula NEC limited to preclinical data while from human infants are lacking. Human milk should be first choice for most infants, however, at times a critical alternative. It absence increases risk rather than formula.

Language: Английский

The fifty billion dollar question: does formula cause necrotizing enterocolitis? DOI Creative Commons
Mark A. Underwood

Journal of Perinatology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 26, 2025

Abstract The question of whether preterm infant formulas cause necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the subject multiple lawsuits and has daily relevance in care infants. Research supporting hypothesis that toxic components formula NEC limited to preclinical data while from human infants are lacking. Human milk should be first choice for most infants, however, at times a critical alternative. It absence increases risk rather than formula.

Language: Английский

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