The quality of sucking in infants with colic

✍ Scribed by Anne Ferguson; Jo Anne Blaymore Bier; Jayne Cucca; Lynne Andreozzi; Barry Lester

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 577 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0163-9641
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0355(199622)17:2<161::aid-imhj6>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Feeding problems have been reported in infants with colic. The purpose of this study was to examine the nutritive sucking pattern of infants identified as having colic. 'lbenty-nine infants (16 with colic and 13 controls) between the ages of 1 to 3 months, being bottle-fed by their mothers, were observed by a blind examiner. We hypothesized that infants with colic would show greater disorganization in nutritive sucking and show greater variability in sucking rate than infants without colic, as assessed by the revised Neonatal Oral Motor Assessment Scale (NOMAS). Infants with colic were found to present a disorganized sucking panem; namely, a lack of rhythmical movement and a diffmnce in amount of sucks per burst than infants without colic.

Methods

of intervention arc suggested. &IJI&: Des problhes d'alimentation ont ttt signal& c h n des nounissons mints de colique. Le but de cenc ttude Ctait #examiner le panem de ttt& nutritive c k des nounissons aeints de colique. 29 nourrissons (16 avec w e colique et 13 contr8les) ig& d'entrc un et lrok mois ont Cte observes par un observateur aveugle alors que leur mkre les nounissait au biberon. Nous avions comme hypo-que les nounissons attcints de colique feraient preuve d'une plus p d e desorganisation dans la suction nutritive et d'une plus grande variabilitt dans le taux de succion que les nounissons sans colique. Ctant Cvalu& par 1'Ekhelle d'Evaluation Orale Mom-Nhnatale (NO-MAS, en anglais). La nounissons avcc la colique, compads aux nounissons sans colique.. se sont avC& pdscnter un taux de succion d&organi& par vague de succion Des dthodcs d'intervention sont sugg*.