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14 - Eating disorders in children with disabilities and chronic illness

from Part III - Abnormal states

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2009

Brett McDermott
By
Peter B. Sullivan
Edited by
Tony Jaffa
Brett McDermott
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Peter B. Sullivan
Affiliation:
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Tony Jaffa
Affiliation:
Phoenix Centre, Cambridge
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Summary

Eating, nutrition and growth

Good health demands good nutrition and in the child it is reflected in normal growth. Children who cannot or do not eat properly often become unwell and do not grow. This becomes a source of great concern and anxiety for their parents. Several chronic illnesses in children impair normal feeding; this chapter aims to describe the interrelationship between eating and disease in children with reference to some common conditions. The effects of childhood eating disorders on parents and families will also be considered.

The physiology of feeding

Understanding feeding problems in children rests on detailed knowledge of oral-motor function, the neurophysiology of feeding and child development and behaviour. The development of oral-motor skills reflects general neurological maturation and requires the coordination of the movement of at least 31 pairs of striated muscles in the mouth, pharynx and oesophagus by 5 cranial nerves, the brainstem and the cerebral cortex (Bosma, 1986). The control centre for swallowing, the nucleus tractus solitarius and the adjacent ventral medial reticular formation around the nucleus ambiguous, receive input from rostral brainstem centres, cerebellum, basal ganglia and higher cortical centres.

The swallowing process occurs in four phases: oral preparatory, oral, pharyngeal and oesophageal. The first two phases are under voluntary control, with the pharyngeal phase partly voluntary, and mostly involuntary, whilst the oesophageal phase is entirely involuntary.

Keywords

chronic diseasecongenital heart diseasecystic fibrosisdisabled childreneating disorder
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Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents , pp. 169 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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