PREDICTION OF FEEDING DIFFICULTIES IN NEONATES Alexandra R. Adler, B. Joyce Simpson, Karen A. Diefenbach, and Richard A. Ehrenkranz. Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT and Section of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH. The purpose of this study was to determine whether feeding difficulties in post-...

Feeding difficulties are common in long chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in early childhood and are not associated with developmental disability, metabolic abnormalities, or the overnight feeding regimen. They are an inherent part of the phenotype and it is important to recognise them because of the distress and disruption they cause.

Pediatric feeding problems are common among children and present severe issues for families. Unfortunately, treatment outcome studies with this population are sparse. The current study reviews the literature regarding treatment studies of children with severe feeding issues, provides an overview of empirically supported treatments for children who do eat orally, and finally summarizes intervent...

Objectives: Feeding is an essential function which affects quality of life of the intellectually disabled (ID) persons. Approximately 80% of the severe and profound mentally retarded population have some feeding difficulties. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of feeding problems in children with ID. Methods: In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 144 individuals with Intellect...

Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) is a well-studied gene known to play an essential role in normal speech development. Deletions in the gene have been shown to result in developmental speech disorders and regulatory disruption of downstream gene targets associated with common forms of language impairments. Despite similarities in motor planning and execution between speech development and oral fe...

objective: congenital fusion of jaws is a rare disorder which is observed in infants and cab ne syndromic and non-syndromic. limited mouth opening in patients can affect the child growth and cause difficulties in feeding, swallowing and breathing.   case: a in this study, a female infant from afghanistan, settled in qom referred to alzahra maternity with upper and lower fusion jaws is reported....

Submucous cleft palate is a missed or forgotten diagnosis. We reviewed 81 patients with submucous cleft palate seen over a 15 year period; 26 of these patients were interviewed. The patients were divided into three main groups according to the referral pattern. Children under 2.5 years were referred by a paediatrician for feeding problems; children aged 2.5-10 were referred mainly by speech the...

Many young children are thought by their parents to eat poorly. Although the majority of these children are mildly affected, a small percentage have a serious feeding disorder. Nevertheless, even mildly affected children whose anxious parents adopt inappropriate feeding practices may experience consequences. Therefore, pediatricians must take all parental concerns seriously and offer appropriat...

CP is the most frequent cause of disability in childhood. The clinical state of these children is determined by motoric, cognitive and perceptive disorders, subject to a stable lesion overtime. Regarding energy requirements, CP children have specific needs, due to clinical variability and therapy requirements [1]. The capacity to reach a sufficient suitable oral ingestion is priority. The probl...