PARENTERAL NUTRITION IN PEDIATRICS AND PEDIATRIC SURGERY

Abstract

Nutrition plays a key role in the growth and development of children. A present day balanced parenteral nutrition can adequately ensure the child’s organism with amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, and energy needed to maintain a basic energy level, physical activity, height, pre-correction of nutritional deficiency. The child’s body needs sufficient amounts of electrolytes, minerals, microelements and vitamins. Protein and energy homeostasis is the basis of the organism life, which determines the inflammatory response, the adequacy of the immune status, duration and severity of the disease. The paper presents recent data concerning the conduct of parenteral nutrition in children of different age groups.

Keywords

• malnutrition
• correction
• protein and energy homeostasis
• parenteral nutrition
• children