THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POWDERED AND LIQUID FORMULA IN PREVENTING FEEDING INTOLERANCE IN PREMATURE INFANTS

Nurul Handayani Ardy; Pertin Sianturi; Muhammad Ali

Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF POWDERED AND LIQUID FORMULA IN PREVENTING FEEDING INTOLERANCE IN PREMATURE INFANTS

Nurul Handayani Ardy, Pertin Sianturi, Muhammad Ali

Abstract :

Feeding intolerance is the most common digestive problems in feeding to premature infants. For nowadays, there is no guideline in giving formula milk, liquid or powder, for preventing intolerance in premature infants. A RCT was conducted in NICU, H. Adam Malik Hospital, Medan from March 2017 to March 2018. The inclusion criteria was infants with gestation age below 37 weeks with three-quarter full enteral feeding was formula milk. Data analysis was done by bivariate test. P value < 0.05 was considered significant. Of participants 80, 41 and 39 samples had powder and liquid formula, respectively. Prevalence of formula milk tolerance was 95.1% in powder and 92.30% liquid. Risk factors didn�t affect to feeding intolerance in both group. The NNT value was 35 and NNH value was 36. Both powder and liquid formulas do not effective in preventing feeding intolerance based on this study.