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Table 3.

Strategies to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis: unproven efficacy or limited data

• Cautious advancement of feedings^a

• Trophic feeding^a

• Enteral administration of immunoglobulin^b

• Supplemental l-arginine^c

• Supplementation of feedings with egg phospholipids^c

• Acidification of milk feedings^c

• Administration of probiotics^c

Unproven efficacy.

Not efficacious.

Limited data.