Stool water in preterm neonates.
Open Access
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 61 (11) , 1136-1137
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.61.11.1136
Abstract
Data are presented on faecal water losses in 93 preterm infants being fed breast milk (72 infant days) or formula (280 days). Losses per kg increased to 4 weeks, when they amounted to 11% of water requirement in infants fed breast milk and 8% in infants fed formula.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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