Recovery and Complications

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The length of time the recovery will take varies to each individual baby. In many cases milk is usually re-introduced gradually 10-14 days after feeds are stopped. It may also take a few days for a baby to finish antibiotic treatment or other medications. 

Sometimes complications are possible, especially if there has been surgery to the bowel. 

These complications are:

 

• NEC might return

• Problems with wound and infection 

• Some babies may develop problems with milk tolerance and Diarrhoea

• The bowel may become narrower causing a stricture

• Some babies may have problems with food absorption and growth

• Some babies may have Short bowel syndrome

• Some babies especially very premature babies can have developmental delays.