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Question 1

What are trophic feeds?

Answer 1

Also known as gut priming or minimal enteral nutrition, involves providing nutritionally insignificant volumes of breast milk or formula to premature infants. It’s a method of stimulating the development of the digestive tract without providing a substantial amount of calories.

Trophic feeding can help reduce the reliance on TPN, which is given intravenously and can have complications.