• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제60권12호
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• pp.379-384
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• 2017

Feeding is an interaction between a child and caregiver, and feeding difficulty is an umbrella term encompassing all feeding problems, regardless of etiology, severity, or consequences, while feeding disorder refers to an inability or refusal to eat sufficient quantities or variety of food to maintain adequate nutritional status, leading to substantial consequences, including malnutrition, impaired growth, and possible neurocognitive dysfunction. There are 6 representative feeding disorder subtypes in young children: infantile anorexia, sensory food aversion, reciprocity, posttraumatic type, state regulation, and feeding disorders associated with concurrent medical conditions. Most feeding difficulties are nonorganic and without any underlying medical condition, but organic causes should also be excluded from the beginning, through thorough history taking and physical examination, based on red-flag symptoms and signs. Age-appropriate feeding principles may support effective treatment of feeding difficulties in practice, and systematic approaches for feeding difficulties in young children, based on each subtype, may be beneficial.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제11권sup1호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2008

조사에 의하면 정상적으로 발달하는 유아 아동의 25%~40%정도가 발달의 어떤 단계에서 섭식에 문제를 보일 수 있다고 한다. 많은 경우에 특별한 전문가적 도움없이 발달 과정을 거치면서 문제가 저절로 해결되는 경우도 있으나, 그 중 일부는 성장과 발달 및 가족 생활에 큰 스트레스가 될 정도의 섭식문제를 보이며 심한 경우 그 문제가 오랫동안 지속될 수 있다. 섭식문제는 섭식 그 자체의 문제뿐 아니라 음식거부를 위한 다양한 문제행동을 수반하게 되는데, 기존의 연구 결과는 행동수정의 한 형태인 응용행동분석이 가장 효과적인 치료법이라 보고한다. 문제가 극심한 경우엔 다학제적 팀으로 구성된 전문적인 치료가 필수적이나, 중경도의 문제는 그 종류에 따라서 부모교육을 통해 해결될 수 있기도 하다. 섭식 치료에는 문제를 규명하는 평가 절차가 가장 먼저 선행되어야 하며, 이를 근간으로한 치료책을 개발하고 적용할 때 가장 효과적인 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 치료는 보이는 문제 유형에 따라 달라져야 하는데, 유아 아동들이 가장 빈번하게 보이는 섭식문제 종류와 그에 적절한 구체적인 방법들을 제시하였다. 마지막으로, 부모교육을 통해 유아 아동의 섭식문제를 다룰 때 전문가들이 고려해 주어야 하는 사항들에 대해서 열거해 보았다.

• 대한장애인치과학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.92-95
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• 2009

1. 이 증례는 Pierre Robin Sequence로 진단받은 14개월 남아로 PRS의 3요소 중 하악왜소증, 설하수증의 소견을 보이고 있었으며 기도확보는 측와위를 통하여, 섭식은 PEG 도관삽입술을 시행하여 유지하고 있었다. 2. PRS는 해부학적 폐쇄 질환이기도 하지만 성장 장애이기도 하므로 여러 분야의 다원적 접근 및 치료계획이 필요하며, 다른 증후군들과 연관되어 심장질환, 신경질환, 안과질환, 청력문제 등이 동반될 수 있으므로 치과 진료실 에서 PRS 환아의 진료시 이 점을 유의해야할 것이다.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.229-233
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• 2011

In the pediatric literature, excessive crying has been reported solely in association with 3-month colic and is described, if at all, as unexplained crying and fussing during the first 3 months of life. The bouts of crying are generally thought to be triggered by abdominal colic (over-inflation of the still immature gastrointestinal tract), and treatment is prescribed accordingly. According to this line of reasoning, excessive crying is harmless and resolves by the end of the third month without long-term consequences. However, there is evidence that it may cause tremendous distress in the mother-infant relationship, and can lead to disorders of behavioral and emotional regulation at the toddler stage (such as sleep and feeding disorders, chronic fussiness, excessive clinginess, and temper tantrums). Early treatment of excessive crying focuses on parent-infant communication, and parent-infant interaction in the context of soothing and settling the infant to sleep is a promising approach that may prevent later behavioral and emotional disorders in infancy.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제12권sup1호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2009

Pediatric dysphagia comes from disturbances in swallowing process, which has 'preparatory phase', 'oral phase', 'pharyngeal phase', and 'esophageal phase', and mainly the causes are neuro-muscular discoor-dination. It is necessary to recognize clinical manifestation if they have accompanied organic disorder and diagnose accurately. Videofluoroscopic study evaluation is a valuable method to find out abnormal swallowing mechanism at each phases. Treatment should be diagnosis specific, and multidisciplinary team approach is desirable. We can use various behavioral techniques to facilitate normal swallowing mechanism including conditioning of oral and pharyngeal structures, bolus manipulation, postural compensation, and adaptive feeding utensils. Important point is that the diagnosis and treatment for pediatric dysphagia should not be delayed because children are under development.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.128-133
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• 2015

We present a case of an 8-year-old boy with visceral autonomic neuropathy complicated by Guillain-Barre syndrome. In this pediatric patient, gastroparesis was the major symptom among the autonomic symptoms. Due to the gastroparesis, there was no progress with the oral diet, and nutrition was therefore supplied through a nasojejunal tube and gastrojejunal tube via Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). After tube feeding for 9 months, the patient's gastrointestinal symptoms improved and his oral ingestion increased. The pediatric patient was maintained well without gastrointestinal symptoms for 3 months after removal of the PEG, had repeated vomiting episodes which lead to the suspicion of cyclic vomiting syndrome. Then he started treatment with low-dose amitriptyline, which resulted in improvement. Currently, the patient has been maintained well for 6 months without recurrence, and his present growth status is normal.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.167-177
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• 2017

Purpose: Breastfeeding is the best way to feed all infants, but not all infants can be (exclusively) breastfed. Cow's milk based infant formula is the second choice infant feeding. Methods: The safety of a new synbiotic infant formula, supplemented with Bifidobacterium lactis and fructo-oligosaccharides, with lactose and a whey/casein 60/40 protein ratio was tested in 280 infants during 3 months. Results: The median age of the infants at inclusion was 0.89 months. Weight evolution was in accordance with the World Health Organization growth charts for exclusive breastfed infants. The evolution of all anthropometric parameters (weight-for-length z score and body mass index-for-age z score) was within the normal range. The incidence of functional constipation (3.2%), daily regurgitation (10.9%), infantile crying and colic (10.5%) were all significantly lower than the reported median prevalence for a similar age according to literature (median value of 7.8% for functional constipation, 26.7% for regurgitation, 17.7% for infantile colic). Conclusion: The new synbiotic infant starter formula was safe, resulted in normal growth and was well tolerated. Functional gastro-intestinal manifestations (functional constipation, regurgitation and colic) were significantly lower than reported in literature. Synbiotics (Bifidobacterium lactis and fructo-oligosaccharides) in cow's milk based infant formula bring the second choice infant feeding, formula, closer to the golden standard, exclusive breastfeeding.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.61-64
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• 2017

Recurrent acute pancreatic attacks is a rare clinical condition (2-5% of all acute pancreatis) in children and is mainly idiopathic in most cases. Sometimes it may be associated with congenital anomalies, metabolic diseases or hereditary conditions. Isovaleric acidemia (IVA) is a rare autosomal recessive amino acid metabolism disorder associated with isovaleryl coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency presenting the clinical findings such metabolic acidosis with increased anion gap, hyperammonemia, ketonemia, hypoglycemia, "the odor of sweaty feet," abdominal pain, vomiting, feeding intolerance, shock and coma. Recurrent acute pancreatitis associated with IVA have been rarely reported. Herein; we report a child who admitted with recurrent acute pancreatic attacks and had the final diagnosis of IVA. Mutation analysis revealed a novel homozygous mutation of (p.E117K [c.349G>A]) in the IVA gene. Organic acidemias must kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of recurrent acute pancreatic attacks in children.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제46권10호
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• pp.1036-1039
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• 2003

Sandifer 증후군은 식도의 역류와 관련되어 음식섭취 후 비특이적인 경련과 자세를 취하게 되는 증후군으로서 증상이 경미할 경우 진단이 지연될 수도 있고 여러 신경학적인 질환과 근골격계의 이상과 감별을 위해 과도한 진단과정이 진행될 수도 있다. 저자들은 흡인성 폐렴과 수유 후 무호흡, 비전형적인 경련을 주소로 한 환아에서 Sandifer 증후군을 의심하고 조기에 진단하여 치료한 1례를 보고하는 바이다.

• 대한장애인치과학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.6-10
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• 2016

저자는 선천적 식도폐쇄로 인한 섭식장애를 가진 5세 환아에 대한 임상적 및 방사선학적 관찰을 통해 다음과 같은 지견을 얻었다. 1. 환아는 식도-기관 누공을 동반하는 선천성 식도폐쇄로 인해 위절제술 및 식도 문합술을 시행받았다. 2. 환아는 잦은 음식 섭취와 구토로 치아부식과 함께 다발성 치아우식증 소견을 보이고 있다. 3. 환아의 구강 위생 관리 및 우식 예방을 위해 정기적인 치과 내원과 가정에서 체계적인 관리가 필요하며, 식이와 관련된 재활 치료가 필요하다.