Sentences with phrase «by feeding tube»

Her next ploy was asking that the formula be given by feeding tube.

The organic craze has gotten so intense that even parents of very sick children have been asking Hays and doctors at Johns Hopkins Children's Center about replacing the hospital - provided liquids delivered by feeding tube with organic and homemade mixtures.

It exists in its own environment, a residence within the mother, attached by a feeding tube.

Not exact matches

Doctors threatened to intervene medically by putting a tube into his stomach to feed him externally if he didn't start to gain weight.

They range from the truly funny as in this by now «viral» You Tube video with two robotic teddy - bears discussing the Fed chairman's qualifications («my plumber has a beard too»), to outright obfuscation such as the propagation of this «Bernanke explains he's not printing money, it's just an asset swap «notion.

Consider the story of 82 - year - old Patricia Greenwood, who was put on the Liverpool Care Pathway by doctors in Blackpool, who removed all her feeding tubes and drips.

Perhaps there are those who believe that it is a great medical step forward that we can indefinitely sustain the lives of those who have lost their human potential, or who believe that the sanctity of life is enhanced by large numbers of permanently unresponsive bodies being sustained through a network of feeding tubes at one end of those bodies and excretory tubes at the other.

For such a patient, tube feeding is useful, in that it sustains his life, and is not excessively burdensome because it can be provided at low cost and by unskilled personnel.»

When it was revealed that rehabilitation efforts were also stopped with the decision to end the tube feedings and that even antibiotics were now considered «life support,» an editorial in the St. Louis Review (the archdiocesan newspaper) pointed out that «In a situation where the health of the patient depends not only upon food and water, but on other forms of care and treatment, the purpose of providing food and water should not be undermined by a neglect of the other forms of care.

The extreme, high - tech procedures imagined by ordinary people are rarely the subject of debate; it is simple feeding tubes and common antibiotics that are labeled «unnatural» by «ethicists» - in the thought that the life which they sustain is also unnatural and should not be continued.

It is unfair to blame feeding tubes for keeping people alive when many patients (including even some in PVS) could be nourished by other methods.

If the ball isn't forming, add more water by the teaspoon through the feed tube.

You can take it directly by mouth, add it to any beverage or use directly in tube feeding.

Founded by Arnie Zweben, Froozer was created by Arnie's healing experience when he was in a car accident and was only able to feed through a feeding tube for 6 months.

In a similar study, rats were fed crude extracts of chile pods and crystalline capsaicinoids by stomach tube while allowed access to normal food and water.

Add the remaining flour through the feed tube, pulsing after each addition, until the dough begins to form and is carried around the bowl by the force of the blade.

In a similar study, rats were fed crude extracts of chile pods and crystalline capsainoids by stomach tube while allowed access to normal food and water.

So I very much feel that my role, if I am asked by a child which I very often am, or an adult, what is this (with regard to the feeding tube) or perhaps his tracheotomy that he had for 3 years, his hearing aid or his glasses.

Oxygen by mask or by CPAP [or continuous positive airway pressure] can easily be arranged while in skin - to - skin contact, drips and feeding tubes can be secured sideways.

But Levi John, weighing just over a pound, was nourished by breast milk from a feeding tube and grew stronger in the neonatal intensive care unit at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge.

The baby must be given large quantities of fluids and fed with an elemental infant formula by tube.

I expressed my milk for him to be fed by nasal gastric tube all 12 weeks.

They're not actually being fed or they're being fed by the tube or something like that so what you really going to be dedicating your time to is the pumping.

You amazed everyone by how quickly you were feeding without needing the tube, and after 3 months, it came out.

In this instance, you may need to express breast milk that can be fed to them by syringe or a thin tube.

You can develop a fathering relationship with a premature baby by taking temperatures, changing diapers, practicing kangaroo care, or holding your baby during feedings, even if those feedings go in through a feeding tube.

Babies born this early don't generally yet have the ability to time their suck - swallow - breathe reflexes and must be fed by tube.

If your baby is receiving feedings by tube, it may be a good opportunity for you to have some skin - to - skin or Kangaroo Care time with your baby.

Until the age of 32 to 34 weeks gestational age, most babies are unable to feed by bottle or breast alone, and even when they no longer require total parenteral nutrition or a feeding tube, many require scheduled regular feedings until the age of 37 weeks gestation age.

Putting baby to breast to nurse: When the time is right, usually after 34 weeks, baby's sucking reflex should be mature enough to commence breastfeeding and you will be encouraged to start supplementing the tube feeding by nursing your preterm baby.

I was pumping and feeding by tube also.

By convention, such children are often fed on expressed breast milk or other supplementary feeds through tubes or bottles until they develop satisfactory ability to suck breast milk.

Thus, although a small infant fed breast milk through a tube will have a higher chance of healthy survival than one fed formula by tube, any infant who is fed directly at the breast or who is otherwise fed breast milk with warm body contact and affectionate care will have the best chance for success.

The study found that some mothers reported feeding each baby by differing methods; reasons included one baby being ill or in hospital and needing special formula or drip or tube feeding (8 %), one baby starting solids earlier (8 %), or babies taking differing amounts of milk (6 %)(McAndrew 2012).

Most premature babies who are unable to coordinate the suck and swallow reflex can be fed their mother's expressed breast milk by cup, spoon or nasogastric tube.

So, until the last 24, 48 hours in the hospital her feeds that she had when I wasn't there, the feeds that all were done by NG Tube and those were probably two feeds a day.

Right now, the baby is just «playing» at nursing, and gets fed by tube.

Robin Kaplan: Okay and sometimes I know some of my clients have had I guess kind of dry nursing in the hospital so baby is being fed by and NG Tube at their breast but the mom is already pumped?

My daughter was born by emergency caesarean, six weeks premature, and within 24 hours the nurses had my wife and I feeding her hand - expressed breast milk via a tube and syringe (just as nature intended).

Closer to Nature is an anti-colic starter set that was created to decrease airflow during feeding by using exceptional tubes and valves to enhance venting, making it safer for baby to drink.

Some babies can feed on regular breast milk or formula milk; however, due to poor suckling, feeding is usually accomplished by naso - gastric tube or intravenous feeding.

Feeding can be done by NasoGastric - tube or as total parenteral nutrition where extra vitamins and minerals can also be administered.

If this happens, it's still possible to simulate breastfeeding by feeding your baby through a nursing system that lets formula be delivered through a small tube attached to your nipple.

After making your cardboard tube dragons, your child can practice color matching by «feeding» the dragons their favorite taco toppings.

Increased awareness of the nutritional and medical benefits of breastfeeding, including reduced incidence of infection and allergic reaction, 1 — 9 has led to its endorsement by medical and professional groups10 — 12 and to substantial increases in the number of women choosing to breastfeed.13, 14 A study of 300 British children showed that children who consumed breast milk in the early weeks of life also had significantly higher IQ scores at 7.5 to 8 years on an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) than those who were not breastfed.15 The sample was made up of preterm infants fed breast milk or formula by tube.

One man who was blind and deaf, tube fed and needing 24 hour support was also declared fit for work by Atos assessors.

POISONED BY MOM A C. elegans nematode that inherits a gene for the antidote to a maternal toxin grows a normal feeding tube (shown first).

The Koken Company of Tokyo designed the rats so that students could practise common procedures such as dosing the animals by mouth with pipettes, injecting veins in the tail and inserting feeding tubes into the throat.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

The researchers plan to carry out phase III randomized controlled clinical trials to determine the actual rate of effectiveness by comparing those treated with the ketogenic diet to a group tube - fed a normal, nonketogenic diet.