06 Nov 2019 --- Administering probiotics to premature babies via breast milk may be the key to preventing severe gut infections and other intestinal problems, according to new research led by UK-based Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH). Together with the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia, the NNUH researchers followed the outcomes of nearly a thousand very premature babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit over a decade. They found that introducing routine probiotics to these babies reduced the amount of cases of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). This is a life-threatening gut inflammation condition and a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in premature and very low birth weight infants (VLBW).
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