Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2003
Abstract
Objective: The non-invasive 13C-octanoic acid breath test (13C-OABT) has recently been used to monitor gastric emptying. We evaluated 13C-OABT as a method for assessing gastric emptying in relation to the amount of milk ingested in preterm neonates during their first days of life.
Conclusions: In the first hours of gastric feeding, neither the age of the neonate nor the amount of administered 13C-primed breast milk had any effect on t1/2GE. The gastric emptying rate and the evacuation curve shape for individual neonates were similar and independent of milk amount.