Abstract:Objective To study the changes of serum prealbumin (PA) and aminogram and their correlation in children with sepsis, and to discuss the effect of nutritional support combined with glutamine (Gln) and growth hormone (GH) for the patients. Methods In this study 128 children with sepsis treated in Chengdu Women’s and Children’s Central Hospital from January to December 2016 were enrolled as the observation group, and randomly divided into observation group A and observation group B, with 64 cases in each group. At the same time 30 healthy children were enrolled as the control group. The patients in the observation group A were treated with routine nutritional support combined with Gln, while those in the observation group B were treated with routine nutritional support combined with Gln and GH. Serum PA and aminogram were observed in the observation group before nutritional support and on day 7 during nutritional support, and in the control group on the day when they were involved in this study. The correlation between PA and aminogram was analyzed, the differences in the observation group at different time, between the observation group and the control group, between the observation group A and the observation group B were compared. Results Before nutritional support, PA, serine, glutamate, glycine, alanine, valine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, histidine and proline levels in the observation group were significantly lower than those in the control group, while threonine, cysteine and phenylalanine were significantly higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). On day 7 during nutritional support, PA and aminogram in the observation group became better (P < 0.05). PA was positively correlated with valine, leucine and isoleucine (r = 0.382, 0.475 and 0.514, P < 0.05). On day 7 during nutritional support, PA, valine, isoleucine and leucine levels in the observation group A were significantly higher than those in the observation group B, while the levels of cysteine, methionine, tyrosine, phenylalanine and arginine were obviously lower than those in the observation group B (P < 0.05). Conclusions Before nutritional support, the levels of PA, serine, glutamate, alanine, valine, isoleucine and leucine decline; while the levels of threonine, cysteine and phenylalanine increase in children with sepsis. PA level is positively correlated with valine, leucine and isoleucine. Changes of PA and aminogram are associated with the prognosis of the patients. Nutritional support combined with Glu and GH helps to keep PA and aminogram normal.