Feeding Tolerance inInfants. Other feeding problems of newborn
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Giving infants abdominal massage one hour after feeding them for 10 minutes twice a day and repeating it for 5 days. Intervention 2: No intervention was performed in the control group.
Giving infants abdominal massage one hour after feeding them for 10 minutes twice a day and repeating it for 5 days.
No intervention was performed in the control group
Sponsors
Vice Chancellor for Research, Isfahan University of Medcal Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
No minimum to 29 Days
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: infants should be in the 28-32 week-old age range; infants should weigh1000-1800 grams; infants who have a medical prescription for a daily feeding of at least 20 cc/kg; infants who are breastfed; infants who suffer from feeding intolerance; infants should have no history of ileus (gastrointestinal atony), abdominal surgery, or any other problem forbidding them to receive abdominal massage; infants should be fed through the orogastric tube; parents should give consent to the examination of their infants; preterm infants should never suffer from major congenital anomalies such as congenital heart disease, digestive-system disorders, hypoxic injury, respiratory failure with mechanical ventilation, history of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), or (suspected) sepsis; preterm infants should show no symptoms of intracranial hemorrhage; preterm infants should never need a ventilator. Exclusion criteria: parents’ withdrawal for infants’ participation in the study; infants’ discharge or death before the end of the intervention period; infants’ becoming unwell in the course of illness and during the study, which would interfere with the intervention for any reason.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Gastric residual volume. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: with syring.;Abdomen circumferenc. Timepoint: Before and after intervention. Method of measurement: With meter.;Vomiting. Timepoint: Every working shift. Method of measurement: Frequency.;Defecation. Timepoint: Every working shift. Method of measurement: Frequency. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactMahin Shaeri
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed