Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants
Objective This study aimed to determine blood glucose levels of healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age (AGA), exclusively breastfed infants at the age of 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours of life, and to investigate the incidence of hypoglycemia in those infants. Methods All healthy, term, AGA inf...
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| description | Objective This study aimed to determine blood glucose levels of
healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age (AGA), exclusively
breastfed infants at the age of 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours of life,
and to investigate the incidence of hypoglycemia in those infants.
Methods All healthy, term, AGA infants born in Cipto
Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Jakarta, who were exclusively
breastfed during the recruitment period of December 2003 until
February 2004, were included in this study. These infants were
subjected to blood glucose level determination at the age of 6, 12,
24, 48, or 72 hours of life, and the clinical signs of hypoglycemia
were monitored.
Results Two hundred and fifteen blood samples taken from 137
newborns were studied. There was no incidence of hypoglycemia
observed, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. The range of
blood glucose levels was between 41 mg/dl and 115 mg/dl. The
means and the standard deviations (SD) of the blood glucose lev-
els of the 6-, 12-, 24-, 48- and 72-hour old infants were 59.7 (11.98)
mg/dl, 64.1 (13.51) mg/dl, 65.9 (14.42) mg/dl, 67.0 (14.95) mg/dl,
and 78.6 (16.51) mg/dl, respectively.
Conclusions The current concern for hypoglycemia in the popu-
lation of healthy, term, AGA, exclusively breastfed infants during
the first few days of life was not proven to exist. Therefore, there is
no reason to resort to prelacteal feeding in such infants |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76847c0b9bd44d52b0bcb1ee957b1f512022-12-21T19:20:47ZengIndonesian Pediatric Society Publishing HousePaediatrica Indonesiana0030-93112338-476X2016-10-0145171310.14238/pi45.1.2005.7-13654Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infantsLineus HewisRulina SuradiTaralan TambunanObjective This study aimed to determine blood glucose levels of healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age (AGA), exclusively breastfed infants at the age of 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours of life, and to investigate the incidence of hypoglycemia in those infants. Methods All healthy, term, AGA infants born in Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Jakarta, who were exclusively breastfed during the recruitment period of December 2003 until February 2004, were included in this study. These infants were subjected to blood glucose level determination at the age of 6, 12, 24, 48, or 72 hours of life, and the clinical signs of hypoglycemia were monitored. Results Two hundred and fifteen blood samples taken from 137 newborns were studied. There was no incidence of hypoglycemia observed, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. The range of blood glucose levels was between 41 mg/dl and 115 mg/dl. The means and the standard deviations (SD) of the blood glucose lev- els of the 6-, 12-, 24-, 48- and 72-hour old infants were 59.7 (11.98) mg/dl, 64.1 (13.51) mg/dl, 65.9 (14.42) mg/dl, 67.0 (14.95) mg/dl, and 78.6 (16.51) mg/dl, respectively. Conclusions The current concern for hypoglycemia in the popu- lation of healthy, term, AGA, exclusively breastfed infants during the first few days of life was not proven to exist. Therefore, there is no reason to resort to prelacteal feeding in such infantshttps://paediatricaindonesiana.org/index.php/paediatrica-indonesiana/article/view/790blood glucose levelhypoglycemiahealthytermappropriate for gestational ageexclusively breastfed |
| spellingShingle | Lineus Hewis Rulina Suradi Taralan Tambunan Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants Paediatrica Indonesiana blood glucose level hypoglycemia healthy term appropriate for gestational age exclusively breastfed |
| title | Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants |
| title_full | Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants |
| title_fullStr | Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants |
| title_short | Blood glucose levels in healthy, term, appropriate for gestational age, exclusively breastfed infants |
| title_sort | blood glucose levels in healthy term appropriate for gestational age exclusively breastfed infants |
| topic | blood glucose level hypoglycemia healthy term appropriate for gestational age exclusively breastfed |
| url | https://paediatricaindonesiana.org/index.php/paediatrica-indonesiana/article/view/790 |
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