(1) Background: Pediatric dysphagia presents significant nutritional challenges, often
impacting growth and development due to reduced oral intake, increased nutritional needs …

Nutrition focuses on the intake and use of food material, whereas swallowing serves as the
primary method of delivery for this nourishment. Swallowing dysfunction may compromise …

Infancy and childhood represent a time of unparalleled physical growth and cognitive
development. In order for infants and children to reach their linear and neurological growth …

This position paper prepared by the Japanese Working Group on Integrated Nutrition for
Dysphagic People (JWIND) aims to summarize the need for nutritional management in adult …

Limited ability to take in nutrients places young patients with dysphagia at risk for
malnutrition and failure to gain weight. These children require careful evaluation and …

Malnutrition and dysphagia have been shown to be closely related (1), and the management
and intervention of these conditions in clinical practice are crucial for improving prognosis …

Dysphagia requires identification and treatment from speech and language therapists (SLT),
and since patients with dysphagia are at high risk of malnutrition (1), it is also vital that …

Oropharyngeal dysphagia can significantly affect food ingestion. Texture-modified foods and
thickened fluids are proposed to alleviate this difficulty. The nutritional density of adapted …

The process of enteral feeding involves intake of solid or liquid substance to support
appropriate nutritional status, which is vital to maintain human health. More importantly in …

Feeding and swallowing in children is a dynamic, complex process impacted by anatomic,
physiologic, and neurologic development. A disruption in any of these realms can lead to a …