NoTube’s year in numbers
NoTube’s year in numbers: exciting, busy and full of innovations! The following lines provide an overview about NoTube’s activities in 2016.
MOST RECENT ARTICLES
Hunger vs. starving during tube weaning
The most frequently discussed aspect of tube weaning is the reduction of tube feeding. Should the amount of nutrition be reduced and, if so, how much and how fast? Raging myths abound around hunger vs. starving during tube weaning. Here is some information from our experts perspective.
What we learnt from welcoming over 70 patients in our EAT campus in Graz, Austria
At NoTube, we’ve had an eventful year in 2016. Most significantly, we now feel even closer to our little patients than ever before. This is due to our new therapy center that enables us to welcome families from all over the world in Graz. This is the story of how this therapy center came to be and what we have learnt from operating it for the past year.
Intrauterine growth retardation
Intrauterine growth retardation means that the child during pregnancy was not able to reach its genetic growth potential. If the IUGR child has had a tube placed it is important to know if catch-up growth is expected. NoTube children who are supplied with a feeding tube and are prescribed large quantities of food in order to catch-up.
Daycare with a tube-fed child
Everyday life with a tube fed child is never easy and the parent who decided to take full-time care of the child needs breaks sometimes. There are a few possibilities to break from the routine. It might be an advantage for the child as well as for the parents to meet other families.
What is failure to thrive (FTT) and why can it lead to tube feeding?
Failure to thrive describes a child that fails to meet its growth expectations, and although often referred to as a diagnosis, it is only a descriptive term and word for defining the observed state. In a large number of children the cause of reduced food intake is food refusal due to behavioural or eating disorders, these are multifactorial in origin. It is important for medical professionals to identify these and try to treat them before considering tube feeding.
Why parents should avoid force feeding their child
This article is about the processes parents try to get their child to eat and why we want you to avoid them, and help you free your child from the feeding tube without using any methods involving force or persuasion.
Feeding Tubes and Dental Hygiene
An expert answers the most important questions about dental hygiene by tube fed children.
Eating School – An Outsider’s Perspective
NoTube can create an environment in which children, who literally cannot eat to save their lives, will learn to do that in the next 14 days.
Weaned from the tube after oesophagal atresia: the story of Srna
A heroine’s story that started in Belgrade in 2012, when an oesophageal atresia was diagnosed at Srna’s birth.