Transition Phase Nutrition Recommendations: A Missing Link in the Nutrition Management of Preterm Infants

Abstract

Actual intakes of nutrients, analyzed using a nutrition phase approach to evaluating nutrition support, enabled a more infant-driven rather than age-driven application of nutrition recommendations. This approach unmasked nutrient deficits occurring during the transition phase. Overcoming nutrient deficits in this nutrition phase should be prioritized to improve the nutrition management of preterm infants.