Sucking and swallowing

Sucking and swallowing difficulties in infancy: diagnostic problem of dysphagia.

The purpose of this paper is to review the world literature about dysphagia in infancy, and to provide a simple classification, illustrated here by a brief resume of 19 personally observed cases. Finally, there is a short section on diagnosis and prognosis. There is a lack of a good discussion of the whole problem of dysphagia in a textbook, whether paediatric, neurological, dental, or otorhino...

Development of co-ordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing: ultrasound study of term and preterm infants.

Fourteen newborn babies of different gestational ages (33 to 40 weeks) but similar postnatal age (four to 19 days) were studied during bottle-feeding using real-time ultrasonography, combined with respiratory monitoring. Previously undescribed tongue movements and graded changes in the temporal relationships between tongue movements, swallowing and breathing were observed among infants of diffe...

Sucking and swallowing rates after palatal anesthesia: an electromyographic study in infant pigs.

Infant mammalian feeding consists of rhythmic suck cycles and reflexive pharyngeal swallows. Although we know how oropharyngeal sensation influences the initiation and frequency of suck and swallow cycles, the role of palatal sensation is unknown. We implanted EMG electrodes into the mylohyoid muscle, a muscle active during suckling, and the thyrohyoid muscle, a muscle active during swallowing,...

[Sucking in preterm newborns and the sucking stimulation].

BACKGROUND Non-nutritive sucking stimulation may anticipate the beginning of oral feeding and may influence the development of sucking in pre-term newborns. AIM To describe the development of the sucking pattern and the effects of NNS. METHOD Participants of this study were 95 preterm newborns (PTNB), adequate for their gestational age (GA), born with GAs inferior or equal to 33 weeks, rand...

Thumb and finger sucking.