Growth & Development

Early life events, including nutrition, play a powerful role in programming a person’s development, metabolism and health for the future. This section covers all aspects of the importance of maternal nutrition in the first 1000 days including nutrition in pregnancy, epigenetics, metabolic programming, breastfeeding, growth & cognitive development and a lot more.

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Feeding children with gastrointestinal impairment

Feeding children with GI impairment ESPGHAN 2024

Children with gastrointestinal impairments, including those with neurological diseases, congenital heart disease, short bowel syndrome, neuromuscular disorders, and cancer, often face significant nutritional challenges. Addressing these challenges requires careful consideration of nutritional strategies and enteral formula selection to ensure optimal health outcomes for these vulnerable patient populations. In this NNI Symposium at ESPGHAN 2024, experts Prof. Claudio Romano, Prof. Antonella Diamant, and Dr. Graeme O’Connor, detail these conditions, risks for malnutrition, and the various

Flavia Indrio NNIW101

Gut bone axis: Clinical implications

Co-Authored by 3 Experts
Siddarth Ventakesh

Microbiome-targeted dietary regiments to combat pediatric malnutrition

Sid Venkatesh
Quality of life in infants with functional gastrointestinal disorders: a large prospective observational study (videos)

Quality of life in infants with functional gastrointestinal disorders: a large prospective observational study

Influence on microbiome and necrotising enterocolitis - What is new? (videos)

Influence on microbiome and necrotising enterocolitis - What is new?

HMO - Where do we go? (videos)

HMO - Where do we go?

Lactobacillus reuteri for GOR and infantile colics - Where do we stand? (videos)

Lactobacillus reuteri for GOR and infantile colics - Where do we stand?

FGID and the role of probiotics (videos)

FGID and the role of probiotics

Nutrition and Cognition – What do we know in term infant? (videos)

Nutrition and Cognition – What do we know in term infant?

Magnus Domellöf
What is the evidence that nutrition affects brain outcomes in high-risk infants? (videos)

What is the evidence that nutrition affects brain outcomes in high-risk infants?

Nicholas Embleton
The Pediatric Rome IV Criteria - What is new? (videos)

The Pediatric Rome IV Criteria - What is new?