How does cleft palate baby feed tonic food

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Cleft palate is a soft tissue deformity of the lips in infants, which has a great impact on children's eating and needs a special way of feeding. Now let's take a look at how cleft palate babies feed.

How does cleft palate baby feed tonic food

First of all: under normal circumstances, the milk is sprayed into the mouth of the newborn through oral sucking and breast spray reflex. The sucking of the newborn with cleft lip and palate is not enough for the negative pressure in the oral cavity, and the sucking force is not strong. Sometimes the milk can enter the airway or nasal cavity by mistake, and even suffocate. Therefore, when feeding this kind of baby, the newborn should sit on the mother's thigh vertically, and the mother can squeeze the breast with her hand to promote the breast spray reflex.

Secondly, the mother can press the cleft lip with her fingers to increase the sucking power of the newborn. Due to the low sucking power of children with cleft lip and palate, they may eat less milk each time. Therefore, after each lactation, they should squeeze out the milk in the breast by hand, and then feed it to the newborn with a small spoon or dropper, which can ensure the nutrition needed by the fetal body and make the child grow healthily.

Finally: because this kind of children have the potential factors of recurrent respiratory tract infection, and breast milk contains a variety of immune substances and lysozyme, which can increase the disease resistance of newborns.

matters needing attention

The treatment of cleft palate is a complex process, which requires oral and maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, orthodontics, voice training. If the baby with cleft palate is selected, it is best to complete the operation between two years old.