Follow-up study of neurodevelopment in 2-year-old infants who had suffered from neonatal hypoglycemia.

Background: Neonatal hypoglycemia is tightly related to adverse neurodevelopmental and brain injury outcomes.

Methods: A total of 195 infants who were born from diabetic mothers with a low blood glucose level (< 2.6 mM) within 0.

Effect of early administration of probiotics on gut microflora and feeding in pre-term infants: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of early probiotic administration on gut microflora and influence on feeding in pre-term infants.

Methods: A double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical study was conducted to assess the effect of probiotics [live, combined lactobacillus and bifidobacterium (LCB)] supplementation in pre-term infants. Sixty hospitalized pre-term babies were randomly assigned to two groups: a probiotics-supplemented group and the control group.