Progress in prevention and treatment on neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis

Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis is the common disease of gastrointestinal tract of neonate.Also it is one of the main reasons of premature death. The pathogenesis of NEC is still unknown. Recently, scientists at home or abroad have done much research on the risk factors, pathogenesis, treatment and precaution of NEC.They try to reduce the morbidity and mortality of NEC by the way of changing feeding patterns, using probiotics,controlling the infection of pathogenic bacteria,using nutrition or cell factors. This passage reviewed the precaution of NEC in passed three years. Key words: Enterocolitis, necrotic;  Infant, neonate, disease