Gut Hormones in Preterm Infants With Necrotizing Enterocolitis During Starvation and Reintroduction of Enteral Nutrition

Abstract

Enteral nutrition stimulates the secretion of gastrointestinal hormones, also in premature infants with a diseased distal small bowel and colon, as in necrotizing enterocolitis. The postprandial increase of peptide YY in patients with an ileostomy indicates that enteral substrate in the colon is not necessary for stimulation of peptide YY secretion.