Infant Nutritional Products
Understanding and monitoring the osmolality of human milk, milk fortifiers, pediatric medications and infant nutritional products is a very relevant topic in the neonatal intensive care setting. Administration of hyperosmolar feeds in neonates has been linked to a wide variety of adverse conditions including altered nutrient absorption, hypertonic dehydration, diarrhea, intestinal ischemia, as well as more sever gastrointestinal abnormailities including necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Common feeding and supplementation practices in the NICU due little to confirm the actual osmolality of individual feed samples, and in many cases can impact patient safety by increasing the risk of hyperosmolar feedings. Many neonatal intensive care units have adopted the use of osmometry as a quality control tool to avoid incidences of hyperosmolar feedings and improve patient safety.
Learn more about Advanced Instruments research with human milk and infant nutiotional products by downloading the Technical Whitepaper:
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