[Feeding problems in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia and other chronic respiratory disorders]

Long lasting feeding problems can occur in children who, in the neonatal period, needed intensive treatment for severe respiratory disease. In some of these children long-term (months) gavage feeding is needed. Retrospectively a group consisting of 16 children with extended feeding problems after neonatal respiratory disease was examined. The results are being described in this article.