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Feeding an infant with high arched palate by high flow rate bottle nipple
Abdulkadir Eren1, Huseyin Bilgin1, Semra Kara1
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Turgut Ozal University, Turkey.
Insights
Feeding infants with high arched palate can be challenging. Using a large nipple, typically for older infants, successfully addressed feeding difficulties in a newborn with this condition.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Neonatology
- Clinical Nutrition
Background:
- Infants with high arched palate often face immediate feeding challenges.
- Existing feeding strategies for cleft palate may be adapted for high arched palate cases.
- Specialized feeding tools and oral facilitation techniques are commonly suggested.
Abstract:
For infants with high arched palate, feeding is one of the most immediate challenges faced by parents and caretakers. General suggestions for feeding in infants with cleft palate may be adapted to infants with high arched palate. These include oral feeding facilitation techniques and special feeding tools. Here we present a newborn with a high arched palate and serious feeding problems who was fed easily by a large size and a large hole nipple, ordinarily used for infants older than 6 months, instead of specialized feeding equipment.
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