Methods: case-control study, with sample constituted of 273 children enrolled in Municipal Daycare Centers in Recife. It was researched the association of outcome with the variables related to socioeconomic characteristics, nutritive and not nutritious sucking habits and development of the stomatognathic system. We used the software STATA/SE 9.0 and Excel 2007 to calculate the risk measure, Odd...

An experimental protocol model for frenulum evaluation was first designed, and administered to ten infants in 2010. After obtaining the data and statistical analysis, the protocol was re-designed and administered to 100 infants. The aim of this study is to present an efficient and effective lingual frenulum protocol with scores for infants. From the experimental protocol model, a new protocol w...

This study aims to identify and analyze, through literature, speech therapy care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for congenital heart disease newborns. The source data is from Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval Sistem Online (MEDLINE), SciELO and the search engine of the National Library of Medicine in the databases PubMed...

ABSTRACT Purpose to verify the readiness for oral feeding and breastfeeding in newborns of mothers diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Methods observational, analytical, quantitative case-control study. For evaluation non-nutritive sucking, PROFAS protocol was used performance at mother's breast, Speech Therapy - Breastfeeding. The sample stratified into two groups, experimental...

Bingham, P., Ashikaga, T. & Abbasi, S. (2010). Prospective study of non-nutritive sucking and feeding skills in premature infants. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal Neonatal Edition, 95(3): F 194-200. Kirk, A., Alder, S. & King, J. (2007). Cue-based oral feeding clinical pathway results in earlier attainment of full oral feeding in premature infants. Journal of Perinatology, 27: 572-578. ...

AIMS To examine the relation between colic and feeding difficulties and their impact on parental functioning for a primarily clinic referred sample. METHODS Forty three infants (and their mothers) were enrolled between 6 and 8 weeks of age. Infants were divided into two groups, colic (n = 19) and comparison (n = 24), based on a modified Wessel rule of three criteria for colic. Families were a...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects social housing, provision physical enrichment, and interaction between two on calf growth, behaviour fearfulness. Forty-eight calves were randomly allocated either individual (IP, sixteen calves) or pair (PP, thirty-two pens from 2 days 8 weeks age. Half in each housing treatment provided with enrichment items (stationary brushes, plastic...

Increased interest among consumers in the reduction of dietary sugar intake has led to the wider availability of food products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS). However, the extent to which NNS are currently being used by manufacturers to sweeten processed food and beverage products, and how NNS may be displacing added sugars as a sweetener is unknown. The current study utilized brande...

INTRODUCTION The impact of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) on energy intake and body weight is not clear although they provide no energy compared to sucrose. OBJECTIVE To establish if there are differences in the consumption of NNS as per the nutritional status and its association with overweight. POPULATION, MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross-sectional study including 571 male and female students a...