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Published on: 10/15/2008
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So something early on in nutrition that we've done as soon as possible after delivery has influenced their outcome even when they go home two months later," says Christina Valentine, MD, with Nationwide Children's Hospital.Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital studied hundreds of preemies for more than three years, and found that giving them an IV of amino acids, the building blocks of protein, dramatically improved their weight.The problem is, with all the other issues facing these babies, some doctors put nutrition on the back burner, giving them only sugar water in the first hours after they're born."The more we do this, the more we realize that it should probably go on the front burner, and it probably has an effect on improving their overall health, even in the first few days of life," says Valentine.