(1) Forty patients will be randomly assigned to either standard enteral nutrition or standard enteral nutrition containing a probiotic.(2) If surgery cannot safely be postponed, parenteral or enteral hyperalimentation should be started.(3) This may range from nil by mouth with total enteral support to full oral route or a balance of the two.(4) Commonly, these infants need supplemental oxygen treatment for mild respiratory distress syndrome or parenteral nutrition until enteral feeds are established.(5) However, enteral feeding is withheld during monitoring with gastric tonometry because enteral feeding is thought to influence tonometric measurements.(6) Neonates generally should not be fed enterally (by mouth or feeding tube) under certain conditions.(7) Time to onset is not appreciably different between similar doses given rectally or enterally .(8) Additional benefits include the mandatory assessment for refeeding syndrome of all enterally fed patients, with appropriate feeding regimes, supplementation, and blood work for those found at risk.(9) Researchers developed an amniotic fluid-like solution to be given enterally .(10) The requirement for surgery was significantly lower in the patients fed enterally .
