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
Dysbiosis in the Neonatal Period: Role of C-Section (videos)

Dysbiosis in the Neonatal Period: Role of C-Section

Josef Neu
The Importance of Normal Colonization of the Newborn in Immune Development and Prevention of Disease (videos)

The Importance of Normal Colonization of the Newborn in Immune Development and Prevention of Disease

Microbial Composition of the Initial Colonization of Newborns (videos)

Microbial Composition of the Initial Colonization of Newborns

Human milk oligosaccharides and association with infants' Growth (news)

Human milk oligosaccharides and association with infants' Growth

Epigenetics in the GI Tract during Health and Inflammation (videos)

Epigenetics in the GI Tract during Health and Inflammation

NNIW35 - Diabetes (publications)

NNIW35 - Diabetes

NNIW02 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (publications)

NNIW02 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Diabetes during pregnancy could pose harm to baby (news)

Diabetes during pregnancy could pose harm to baby