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Feeding Difficulties

What is Feeding Difficulties?

Swallowing incoordination, fatigue, or poor gag or sucking reflexes, which may necessitate special methods of feeding until the baby

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  • Refuses to eat and drink.
  • Cries or fusses when feeding.
  • Falls asleep or isn't alert when feeding.
  • Isn't gaining weight or growing as expected.
  • Arches back or stiffens when feeding.
  • Regularly takes a long time to eat (more than 30 minutes)

Feeding problems may include difficulty swallowing, called dysphagia. This is the inability of food or liquid to pass easily from the mouth to the throat, through the esophagus and into the stomach. Dysphagia can result in aspiration, which may cause pneumonia and/or other serious lung conditions.

Some children develop feeding problems due to a medical condition such as reflux or a severe illness. Some have poor oral motor skills and have difficulty chewing and swallowing and this restricts their diet.

  • Younger gestational age and lower birth weight are significant risk factors for long-term feeding problems.
  • Sex, duration of mechanical ventilation, and length of tube feeds are also potential risk factors.

Early detection might reduce the likelihood that minor feeding disturbances will develop into severe feeding problems. Behavior management strategies and a pleasant social context for mealtimes can improve children's eating and mealtime behavior.

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?
  • referral to a doctor for medical treatment, like medicines for reflux.
  • feeding therapy.
  • trying different foods or adding calories to their diet.
  • trying new ways to get your child to try new foods or textures.
  • changing how hot or cold food is or how crunchy or soft it is.
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How is it treated?

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In the most serious cases of feeding difficulties, feeding assistance may be needed in the form of a feeding tube (enteral feeding) or total or partial intravenous (parenteral feeding) feeding. In most cases, tube feeding is the preferred method, but parenteral feeding may be required for certain conditions.

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