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PEG Feeding Tubes, What are the reasons for using a PEG feeding tube? A PEG feeding tube can be used if you have difficulty swallowing or have a problem that ...
Bottle-feeding Your Baby, Bottle-feeding is something you need to prepare for by buying equipment, choosing formula and making up bottles in advance of needing them.
Feeding Your Toddler, The aims of feeding your toddler are: To help them grow up happy, healthy and well-nourished. To avoid pitfalls such as childhood obesity and tooth dec...
Breathing Difficulties in Children, Children can sometimes also have more serious breathing difficulties that need urgent treatment. Many breathing difficulties are caused...
Feeding Your Baby, Bottle-feeding removes this worry (whether feeding expressed milk or formula). Bottle-feeding allows you to see how much milk your baby has ta...
Feeding Premature Babies, Once the baby's guts are more developed or settled, then tube-feeding can gradually replace TPN. Feeding problems in premature babies ...
PEG Feeding Tubes - Indications and Management, There is now evidence that delaying use of the tube has no advantage over early feeding. Benefits of PEG feeding tube...
Parenteral Feeding, What is parenteral feeding? Parenteral feeding is the intravenous administration of nutrients. This may be supplemental to oral or tube feeding, or ...
Infant Feeding, These are the most recent UK-wide figures that are available, as the Infant Feeding Survey was discontinued after this. 17% of women remained exclusively breastfeedin...
Dysphagia (Difficulty Swallowing), There are various causes of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). See your doctor as soon as possible if you develop dysphagia. This is because a ser...
Breathlessness and Difficulty Breathing (Dyspnoea), Breathlessness is also called shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing. People with breathlessness might describe it as: ...
Voiding Difficulties, Voiding difficulties causing discomfort on urination, or retention (chronic or acute), are the reflection of an imbalance between bladder contraction and urethr...
Clinical features Feeding difficulties and respiratory tract infections are the most common problems in infancy. [ 3 ] Growth failure of prenatal origin and congenital short stature...
Enteral Feeding and Enteral Nutrition, What is enteral feeding? Enteral feeding refers to the delivery of a nutritionally complete feed, containing protein, carbohydrat...
Gastrointestinal/metabolic difficulties Feeding difficulties during infancy, including gastro-oesophageal reflux, oesophagitis, food aversion, poor appetite and faltering grow...
Complications Feeding difficulty. Hearing loss. Speech delay . Hearing and speech difficulties may lead to educational difficulties.
Children with Respiratory Difficulties, What causes respiratory difficulties in children (aetiology) Respiratory distress may result from: Laryngomalacia.
The incidence of autistic spectrum disorders is 30% in patients with Moebius sequence. [ 3 ] Neurological sequelae Hypotonia , pharyngeal weakness, feeding difficulties . Res...
It can be fairly common for people with ALS-MND to have feeding problems. These may either be due to difficulty swallowing or to difficulty in actually feeding yourself due ...
The involvement of bulbar motor neurons often give tongue fasciculation, poor suck and an increasing swallowing and feeding difficulty over time. Aspiration pneumonia is an important cause of...