Aluminum Neurotoxicity In Preterm Infants Receiving Intravenous-feeding Solutions

Aluminum, a contaminant of commercial intravenous-feeding solutions, is potentially neurotoxic. We investigated the effect of perinatal exposure to intravenous aluminum on the neurologic development of infants born prematurely…. In preterm infants, prolonged intravenous feeding with solutions containing aluminum is associated with impaired neurologic development.

Abstract. N England Journal of Medicine 1997 May 29;336(22):1557-61.