Feeding Disorder Research Paper

Abstract
Feeding disorder of infancy and early childhood is detected when the infant or young children looks malnourished, when the child did not gain weight because the child is not eating right and there is no medical indication of any problem that cause the issue.
Feeding disorder is common in infant and child, there has been incidence report of feeding problem ranging about 25%and 35% I normal children and very high rate of about 40 to 70% in children with severe feeding problem, especially with children that were born prematurely.
The cause of these disorders is unknown but this can be cause by lots of different thing such as wrong diet, dysfunctional child care giver interaction.
When feeding disorder is severe, it can be life threaten.

Children need sufficient nourishment to satisfy the demand of growth. Assessment requires access to medical professional that can help both the parent and child with their knowledge to bear on the detailed of what has gone wrong.

Feeding disorder of infant or early childhood is described as failure of the child to thrive and grow normally.

There can be many reasons for a child not eating very well; it could be Medical issue, poverty, mismatch of care taker or wrong diet. There is no medical explanation to explain the low food intake. Feeding disorders are more common in infants and children who are born prematurely.
Causes and symptoms:
Feeding disorder in early infant can be attributing to different aspects, it could be Parent and child interaction, Parent inability to read the clue from the child, in other to know when the child is hungry or when the child is uncomfortable or need other attention, Un nature parent can miss the clue for hunger as a child just forcing. Infants who are not nurtured, or whose caregiver becomes angry or are apathetic at feeding are more likely to develop feeding disorder “(Laural Dwights/CORBIS.) The cause of feeding disorder is unknown,
Medical effect can also contribute to eating difficulties but not all eating disorder are medically related.
• Disease such as central nervous system
• Muscular disorder
• Gastrointestinal disease such as crohn.s disease
• Sensory

deflects
All this medical condition must first be assessed and be ruled out to meet the decisive factor for true feeding disorder. Some children who have been tube fed and children with underdeveloped stomach muscle may experience eating has an unpleasant.
Diagnosis of feeding Disorder
Only medical personnel can categorically pronounce a symptom as a medical issue. The doctor will evaluate the child progress of growth, the height, weight check the sign of malnutrition and dehydration to check the extend of the difficulty

Some of the Symptoms that is associated with feed disorder are
Constipation
Excessive crying
Disruptive behavior during meal time
Too much sleep
Irritability
Weight loss or no weight gain
Change in eating habit lasting longer than 30 days

Consequences: insufficient food intake can be detrimental to child health.

It can result in weight lost, malnutrition, even death (Christophersen and hall,1978; Riordan,Iwata,Wohl and Finney,1980).In most cases, food refusal lead to malnutrition and dehydration this call for medical intervention.

Prevalence: There are many statistics regarding the Feeding disorder of infancy and early childhood. Insufficient intake has been reported to cause about 20% of childhood dietary Deficient and occur in 33% of person with disabilities in group home (Palmer &Horn, 1978).

ETIOLOGY: Children with feeding problem can be classify in a manner of causation of their disease . Palmer, Thompson and Linscheid (1975) categorized 79% of feeding problem to Neurological condition

Treatment; early diagnosis and treatment is very important in feeding disorder. When the child has been evaluated depending on the severity of the condition some measure may take place such as.
Increase the number of fluid and calories intake of the infant
Identify and correct any medical issue that is contributing to the feeding

disorder.

Treatment of feeding disorder has to be personalized and include intervention that focus on both the mother, child and any other caretaker that is involve with the child on regular basis. Training parent is very important part for feeding disorder if the mother or caregiver is unable to participate in the intervention it will be good to seek someone that will be able to help.
Feeding disorder require not just the mother and the caretaker also need teams of professional with different expertise such as the dietitian. Dietitian is a health professional that can translate the science of nutrition into everyday information about food. Educate, doctors, nurse and community.
Behavioral Psychologist who can help both the child and the care taker modify their behavior and use behavior therapy .Occupational therapists can help the children with motor coordination skill.