Oral Care With Breast Milk in Preterm Newborns Fed by Tube

Karabuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oral Care; Breastmilk

Treatments: Other: oral care with breastmilk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06129266

13/38

Details and patient eligibility

About

It was conducted to evaluate Oral Care with Breast Milk in Preterm Newborns Fed by Tube

Full description

Newborns selected according to the randomization group will receive nursing care, including oral care and feeding, from the same person twice a day, at 09:00 in the morning and 15:00 in the afternoon. Breast milk (BM) will be used for oral care. At each treatment, two ml BM should be dropped onto sterile gauze to clean the cheeks, tongue and palate. Process steps; After hand hygiene is achieved, it will be done using disposable gloves.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 28 to 33 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• -Staying in the neonatal intensive care unit
• Being fed by gavage
• Babies with no oral intake (nonperoral-NPO)
• Babies fed with breast milk and/or formula

Exclusion criteria

• Babies who are exclusively breastfed
• Cleft palate/lip
• Major congenital anomaly
• Intubated babies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

İntervention (Oral care with breastmilk) group

Experimental group

Description:

Newborns selected according to the randomization group will receive nursing care, including oral care and feeding, from the same person twice a day, at 09:00 in the morning and 15:00 in the afternoon. Breast milk (BM) will be used for oral care. At each treatment, two ml BM should be dropped onto sterile gauze to clean the cheeks, tongue and palate. Process steps; After hand hygiene is achieved, it will be done using disposable gloves.

Treatment:

Other: oral care with breastmilk

Routine maintenance group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be applied to the control group other than oral care with sterile distilled water, which is routine clinical practice.