Use this term to record the feeding types the infant consumed prior to collection of the newborn screening specimen. Select any answers that apply; you can select more than one answer. If you select "other," use the additional narrative LOINC code for "Other feeding types" to give additional details. Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) can affect NBS results for amino acids, and possibly for acylcarnitines if TPN includes carnitine. Carnitine can affect NBS results for acylcarnitines. MCT oil can affect NBS results for fatty acids. IV dextrose can affect NBS results for C16-OH carnitine. SOURCES: Newborn Screening Guidelines for Preterm, Low Birth Weight, and Sick Newborns; Approved Guideline. CLSI document I/LA31-A. Wayne, PA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; (2009). Martinez JA, Ballew MP. Infant Formulas. Pediatr Rev 2011 May;32(5):179-89.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Feeding types
property
Find = Finding
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
^Patient
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
Additional Names
short name
Feed status; Finding; Findings; Food sources; H+P; H+P.HX; Nominal; P prime; Point in time; Random
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