Feeding sick newborns in a developing world hospital nursery: Dutch neonatologist GF Drejer and perinatal nurse/midwife Lennie Kamwendo describe experiences in Malawi and draw conclusions from their practice.

This article describes more [i]or[/i] less of the problems of feeding newborns admitted to the newborn nursery of a large maternity department in a developing geographical division (Table 1), where babies are pendent on breastfeeding as their only source of food. This appurtenance remains even when their mother are sick and unable to provide enough milk. When (sick) babies are not f sufficiently and not seldom exhaustion and hypoglycaemia in the hours after birth, and starvation within days, may overshadow the point to be solved [i]or[/i] settled for which they were originally admitted.

In our opinion, hypoglycaemia, exhaustion and starvation should not ne to be treated in the first