Hospital helps kids with life-or-death intestinal problems
TAMMY LJUNGBLAD Just a year old, little Tysen Zeller suffers an unusual condition involving his intestines. He waited Tuesday with his mom, Megan Zeller, to see a pediatric gastroenterologist, part of...
View ArticleHelp for a child in need
– Colin Michael Jones has survived more in his short nine months than many adults do in a lifetime, but sadly, his trials and tribulations have left his young brain very damaged. Colin Michael Jones...
View ArticleDitching feeding tubes - why it's a growing industry
It's lunchtime in a cluttered family kitchen on Auckland's North Shore, and Stella Kloss, age 20 months, is filling her face. It's not exactly a nutritionally balanced meal: whipped cream, a splodge...
View ArticleKC hospital offers intestinal center for children
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — About 45 children who were born with malfunctioning or malformed intestines are being treated at a new rehabilitation center recently opened at Children's Mercy Hospital in...
View ArticleTake it from a girl who cannot eat, a feeding tube is no fad
April 18, 2012 -- Updated 2003 GMT (0403 HKT) Samantha Pecoraro, 14, said using a feeding tube to lose weight was "disgusting." (CNN) -- Feeding tubes are designed to nourish patients, not deprive...
View ArticleThriveRx Celebrates Tube Feeding Awareness Week, February 5 to 11, 2012
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In honor of Tube Feeding Awareness Week, February 5 to 11, ThriveRx is helping to spread the word about enteral nutrition and tube feeding use. The objective of Feeding...
View ArticleFeeding tubes help kids, but parents pay emotional price
By Jeff Seidel Detroit Free Press Nutrition? No problem More from our new Healthy Kids blog HEALTH Healthy Kids: Nutrition? No problem Feeding tubes help kids, but parents pay emotional price - 4:08pm...
View ArticleA matter of survival
DETROIT—Alex Callahan was born 13 weeks prematurely and had so many complications, including an aversion to food, that he spent the first three years of his life on a feeding tube. His sister,...
View ArticleFeeding tubes help kids flourish, but parents pay emotional price
DETROIT -- Alex Callahan was born 13 weeks prematurely and had so many complications, including an aversion to food, that he spent the first three years of his life on a feeding tube. His sister,...
View ArticleA special need for nourishing advice
On January 29th, 2010, Jason Behan was born four months prematurely. His unexpected arrival meant the tiny boy weighed in at just 1lb 4oz and, because of his size, remained in hospital for the first...
View ArticleResearcher receives $1.4 million grant to study nutrition in low birth...
(Source: University of Florida) Researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study nutrition in low birth weight infants GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida nursing researcher has received a $1.4...
View ArticleBreast milk is best for preemies
Breast feeding is the best form of nutrition a mother can offer her child. Whether your child is born full term or very premature, breast milk offers the best source of infant nutrition. The premature...
View ArticleSevere food allergies challenge teens
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – At dinner time, Michaela Shelley doesn’t fill a plate with meats and vegetables. Instead, the 14-year-old grabs a white, milky substance from the kitchen counter. “I wish I could...
View ArticleBad habits that can be good for you
London - From an early age we are taught to curb our bad personal habits – so it might come as a surprise to learn that some of these have health benefits. From burping and finger-cracking to spitting,...
View ArticleBite by bite, girl who never learned to eat enjoys first taste of real food
Thanks to specialist treatment in Austria, Bolton toddler Tabitha Stuttard has started taking real food For the first time in her two-year-old life Tabitha Stuttard is enjoying the taste of food....
View ArticleHelp when red tape snarls a patient
The first thing to understand about 22-year-old Bethany Sabbag's struggle to live at home is the sheer volume of stomach fluid -- almost half-a-gallon -- that her body makes each day. The second thing...
View ArticleDigestive System
In Yahoo! Health More from Yahoo! Health: If you're like most people, you probably think digestion begins when you first put food in your mouth. But in reality, the digestive process starts even...
View ArticleYorktown girl can eat only one thing: costly formula that insurance won't cover
YORKTOWN Three-year-old Hannah Devane is allergic to food. Not the kind that makes kids spit out their broccoli; the kind that can kill. The Yorktown preschooler has a condition called eosinophilic...
View ArticlePeptic Ulcers
Many people think that spicy foods cause ulcers, but the truth is that a type of bacterium called helicobacter pylori (or h. pylori) is the main culprit. And many people also believe that adults in...
View ArticleNurse Ginny, a Children's Professional
As we report each year during our fund-raising campaign on behalf of Children's Hospital, the staff is exceptionally dedicated. My assistant, Lynn Ryzewicz, has the story of one nurse who takes...
View ArticleBundle of Misery
My son spit up the first time when he was 3 days old, jolting awake from a sound nap. The screaming started three weeks later. If Joseph was awake and not nursing, which he wanted to do constantly, he...
View ArticleA visit with Destiny, one of St. Christopher's extra-needy preemies
By Gloria Hochman For The Inquirer A happy Yolanda Dent of Norristown is finally taking her 8-month-old baby Destiny home. Destiny was born March 4 at 24 weeks premature. (Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel / Staff...
View ArticleThree of Septuplets May Go Home
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three of the septuplets born in July could be released from the hospital in two weeks if their condition continues to improve, their doctor said. The babies - one boy and two girls -...
View ArticlePope Being Fed Through Nasal Tube
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul is being fed through a nasal tube to boost his strength, the Vatican said Wednesday, casting a dramatic new light on the Pontiff's struggle to...
View ArticleWhat causes feeding fatigue in infants?
Overview Feeding is hard work for an infant, who needs to coordinate sucking, swallowing and breathing all at the same time. Feeding fatigue can be a serious symptom in an infant, who may not be...
View ArticleAiling pope fitted with nasal feeding tube
By Joyce Howard Price THE WASHINGTON TIMES As Terri Schiavo's parents continued their battle to have the Florida woman's stomach feeding tube restored, Pope John Paul II yesterday began receiving...
View ArticlePope getting some nutrition through tube, Vatican says
ROME - (KRT) - Pope John Paul II is receiving added nutrition through a tube in his nose, the Vatican announced Wednesday, acknowledging for the first time that the pontiff's recovery from throat...
View ArticleLittle Bundle of Joy/After months of uncertainty, Hortensia could finally...
Hortensia had never been to a psychiatrist before, but she kept the appointment the doctors made for her. It felt odd to tell a stranger her problems, her fears, her innermost thoughts. He asked her...
View ArticleRare surgery performed on infant girl
PUNE: Parents of Saleh Antsar Azan, from Tanzania, are all smiles today. Their two-month-old daughter has been relieved of the pain she had been suffering ever since her birth and is fit to be...
View ArticleBoy, 4, eats for first time after parents spot drastic cure for his condition...
A four-year-old boy born with a rare life-threatening condition that meant he couldn't eat, is tucking into food for the first time. Harrison Cooper-Jones had been fed through a tube all his life,...
View ArticleParents struggle with toddlers who won't eat
Kendall Shanks chewed on a few grains of rice like she was working on a porterhouse steak. Her mother, Brenda Cook, was astonished. "Oh my gosh! Look at Kendall!" her mother cried, maybe just a little...
View ArticleWhen Bodie Nash arrives four months early, his parents pray that he will survive
Adrienne Nash writhes on a gurney in a speeding ambulance, gasping her way through another contraction.Take deep breaths, the emergency medical technician tells her. I know it hurts. Adrienne is 24...
View ArticleWhen feeding becomes a fight for a child's life
The mashed broccoli looked innocuous enough -- a teensy scoop of green on a plastic spoon -- but Matthew Miller wasn't having it. He buried his face in his hands. He banged on the highchair. He kept...
View ArticleFeeding Tube a Worrying Sign for Pope's Health
ROME (Reuters) - The feeding tube inserted into 's nose will be causing him considerable discomfort and may not be enough to resolve his difficulties feeding himself, medical experts said on Wednesday....
View ArticleSpare the Gut, Spoil the Child
(HealthScoutNews) -- The way to a premature baby's health may be through her stomach. It turns out that pigs -- and probably human babies -- who are born early thrive when they're fed most of their...
View Article20/20: 'My Child Won't Eat!'
Like many other 3-year-old girls, Miranda Lappan likes toys, ballet and picture books. But in one way, she is strikingly different. Miranda has breakfast, lunch and dinner through a feeding tube,...
View ArticleWhen swallowing goes wrong
Asingle act of swallowing is a symphony of perfectly timed events: muscles tightening and relaxing, holes opening and closing, signals flashing from brain to throat and back. So when 2-month-old Hana...
View ArticleWhen Bodie Nash arrives four months early, his Austin parents pray that he...
Adrienne Nash writhes on a gurney in a speeding ambulance, gasping her way through another contraction. Take deep breaths, the emergency medical technician tells her; I know it hurts. Adrienne is 24...
View ArticleBenefits of artificial tube feeding
2010/04/26 ANNIE FREEDA CRUEZ and ELVINA FERNANDEZ features@nst.com.my Nasogastric or gastric feeding tubes? ANNIE FREEDA CRUEZ and ELVINA FERNANDEZ talk to Dr Sanjiv Mahadeva about the various forms...
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