Sentences with phrase «infant feeding tubes»

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

If behavioral therapies fail to help an infant overcome oral aversion, a feeding tube may be considered.

It is most notable for being associated with the deaths of neonates fed infant formula via naso - gastric tubing.

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.

When infants are too tiny or weak for breastfeeding, mothers can express their milk for spoon or cup feeding or for tube feeding if necessary.

Infants randomised to the dummy groups had dummies available on trial entry; their use was encouraged during tube feeds and when the infant was restless.

For instance, some infants are too premature or too sick to eat on their own, so they have a feeding tube that runs through the mouth and into the stomach.

Human Milk Fortifier (HMF), developed for use with premature infants, is often used as a «filler» when an infant is being tube - fed expressed breastmilk.

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.

Infant reflux is often a problem in premature babies, particularly if they were tube fed whilst in hospital.

Furthermore, high levels of exposure to this di (2 - ethylhexyl) phthalate through the use of medical tubing and other plastic devices for feeding and medicating newborn infants has been predicted to affect the development of the male reproductive system, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.