Pediatria pre prax 4/2012

Particularity of nutrition not only by prematures infants

Author summarizes current knowledge about early child nutrition and its impact on growth, development and human health from childhood to adulthood. Nutrition of foetus, depending on the state of nutrition and on the diet of pregnant women, epigenetic aspects of early nutrition and the importance of the individual components of nutrition for the development of the brain and its perception, for the activation of the immune system and stabilization of the skeleton of a child are the main subject of the communication. A children‘s doctor has an important role in the education of family and the management of child nutrition especially in the initial period of his life.

Keywords: nutrition of foetus, epigenetic, feeding requirements for the development of the nervous system, immunity and the skeleton of a child.