New strategy helps infants swallow on their own
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Reuters – Some infants who have severe problems swallowing, a disorder called dysphagia, can learn to feed on their own, eliminating the need for long-term gastrostomy tubes, investigators report. The approach involves crib-side motion studies of the throat and esophagus, and individualized treatment by a multidisciplinary team of specialists.
In the study, published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 15 out of 20 infants with severe swallowing abnormalities, based on the results of videofluoroscopic tests, were able to feed on their own at discharge after using the strategy developed by clinicians in the Neonatal and Infant Feeding Disorders Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
The strategy aims first to determine the underlying problem of each newborn’s feeding problems through studies of the throat and esophagus. The next step is feeding and directly observing what occurs as attempts at swallowing and breathing are made, lead author Dr. Sudarshan Jadcherla told Reuters Health.
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