Early Nutrition Influence – Preventive and Therapeutic Aspects

At this NNI European Meeting 3 main chapters were discussed: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGID), the influence of microbiome and nutrition and cognition.

FGID are not strictly a medical issue, but an important concern for parents, which generates a lot of visits to the practitioners. Topics such as the relevance of FGID in clinical practice, how probiotics can be used in their management and the impact of these disorders on quality of life of infants and their parents were presented.

What is new on microbiota and health was also discussed, approaching the role of microbiome on different diseases such as necrotizing enterocolitis and allergy. The role of Human Milk Oligosaccharides and new research on this field were included in this section as well.

Impact of early nutrition on brain outcomes on term and preterm infants were also topic of debate in this workshop.