Modification of Playtex nurser for cleft palate patients.
To facilitate the passive feeding requirements of children with cleft lip and palate deformities, as well as children with neurological deformities, a modification has been adapted to the Playtex nurser (Playtex, Dover, DE). It consists of removing the lower plastic portion of the bottle to allow passive delivery via a squeeze bag technique. This modification has been quite successful with these patients. We have found this bottle to be less expensive as well as easy to purchase compared with other available bottles. This bottle also has the capability of having multiple nipple variety types that can be adapted to it
Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA.
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D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn