Abstract:
To analyze the clinical effect of early intravenous nutrition therapy for very low birth weight infants. 80 cases
of very low birth weight infants referred to our hospital from June 2013 to June 2015 were randomly and evenly divided
into two groups. The infants in group A were treated with early intravenous nutrition, while with late parenteral nutrition
for those in group B. The intravenous nutrition time, proportion of body weight loss, time consumption for recovery to
birth weight and full enteral nutrition and complication rate between the two groups were compared. We found that there
were significant differences in the intravenous nutrition time, proportion of body weight loss, and time consumption for
recovery to birth weight and full enteral nutrition between the two groups (P<0.05). Moreover, the complication rate of
group A was 7.5%, which was 17.5% lower comparing with 25.0% in group B (P<0.05). Thus, we conclude that early
intravenous nutrition therapy in very low birth weight infants is effective and safe and further promotion and application
of this therapy is worthy.
