Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a rather frequent clinical entity in patients with neurological problems that can lead to serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia and other disorders like dehydration or malnutrition due to feeding difficulties. It should be suspected in children with splitting of food intake or prolonged feeding, coughing or choking during feeding, continuous drooling or r...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the overall profile of children with feeding disorders and their relationships to medical conditions in an outpatient feeding clinic of a tertiary hospital. METHODS The medical records of 143 children who had visited the feeding clinic between January 2010 and June 2014 were reviewed retrospectively. The presence of a feeding disorder (feeding behavior disorder, dysphagi...

Abstract Date Presented 03/31/2022 The purpose of this research is to examine the experiences mothers children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-related feeding difficulties. Data for study come from 15 in-depth interviews mothers. themes presented are difficulties, limited resources assistance, and lack participation stress. A graphic conceptualization our findings gives insight into interac...

How to bring about positive change is a key concern in cultural-historical theory. There an urgent imperative address questions of transformation at the nexus individual and social. One way approach this through concept agency, means which people go beyond coping with problems or adapting status quo, instead striving make future that ought be reality. This paper takes up ideas from Stetsenko’s ...

The rapid progress in medical and technical innovations in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has been accompanied by concern for outcomes of NICU graduates. Although advances in neonatal care have led to significant changes in survival rates of very small and extremely preterm neonates, early feeding difficulties with the transition from tube feeding to oral feeding are prominent and ofte...

INTRODUCTION The usefulness of qualitative or quantitative volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in early detection of brain structural changes and prediction of adverse outcomes in neonatal illnesses warrants further investigation. Our aim was to correlate certain brain injuries and the brain volume of feeding-related cortical and subcortical regions with feeding method at discharge amon...