Newly Emerging Feeding Difficulties in a 33-Year-Old Adult With CHARGE Syndrome

Abstract

Feeding and swallowing difficulties are common among individuals with CHARGE syndrome. Many children require gastrostomy tube feeding in their early years and often undergo a delay in feeding and oral-motor skill development. There is little information available on adults with CHARGE syndrome, and the feeding difficulties they face. The present case describes newly emerging mouth over-stuffing feeding behaviors and feeding difficulties in a 33-year-old adult with CHARGE syndrome who had not undergone feeding therapy since childhood.




J Clin Med Res. 2016;8(1):56-58
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jocmr2288w