CHALLENGES IN NUTRITIONAL THERAPY IN PREMATURE NEWBORN INFANTS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BREASTFEEDING

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594682424071

• Palavras-chave: Preterm Newborn. Nutritional Therapy. Human Milk.

• Keywords: Preterm Newborn. Nutritional Therapy. Human Milk.

• Abstract:

  INTRODUCTION: Prematurity is defined as birth that occurs before the 37th gestational week, due to the onset of labor or by medical determination. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the interference of nutritional therapy on preterm newborns, as well as the importance of breastfeeding and the challenges faced by healthcare professionals in Brazil in providing nutritional therapy for low birth weight preterm infants. METHODOLOGY: This is an Integrative Literature Review with a qualitative approach. RESULTS: Cross-referencing the descriptors resulted in 189 PubMed articles, 265 LILACS articles, and 385 SCIELO articles. Of the 839 articles found, 497 did not address the guiding question of the study, and 289 met the exclusion criteria. Of the 53 remaining, 36 did not fit the inclusion criteria of this study, resulting in a total of 17 articles for contextualization. FINAL CONSIDERATION: There are still few studies produced on breastfeeding in prematurity, and most of them have taken opposite paths to the subject, making it necessary to produce even more that bring to light reflections based on the importance of breastfeeding for premature infants as recommended by the WHO.