低出生体重児の哺乳量増加計画

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A new method of increasing feeding volumes for infants of low birth weight was devised by the author. It was determined by considering birth weight and at the same time subsequent daily body weight of infants. In this report results obtained by adopting our method were described. Premature infants are usually divided into several groups according to their birth weight and increase rates of feeding volumes are determined by considering only on birth weight. Therefore, increase rate of calorie uptake seems paradoxically faster in infants of low birth weight than in infants of higher birth weight. As a consequence, physiological loss of body weight is seemingly fewer and subsequent regaining seems inevitably quicker in infants of low birth weight than in those of higher birth weight. Body weight changes in premature infants of low birth weight are remarkable several weeks after birth. Such changes may correspond to that observed in 2 to 4 months old normal infants during over a month period. Therefore, it may not be appropriate method for feed them by schedules based only upon birth weight. Thus, author devised a feeding plan which based not only upon birth weight, but also upon subsequent daily body weight. Using our method, we may solve the controversial facts which are inevitably emerged when conventional feeding methods are used.
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