If EA or TEF is suspected, all oral feedings are stopped and intravenous fluids are started.

"Nil by Mouth" takes its title from a British medical phrase meaning no oral feedings for a hospital patient.

For preventing inflammation of the digestive tract in premature infants: 261 mg/kg added to oral feedings daily for the first 28 days of life.

In experiments with oral feeding, the mink stayed relentlessly healthy.

Back home a week later, she gradually resumed oral feeding.

In fact, the records and findings are such that oral feedings in quantities sufficient to sustain life would have certainly resulted in aspiration.

The parenteral feedings are decreased by small amounts over time until they can be stopped, or as the patient is changed over to enteral or oral feeding.

In March 2000, the Schindlers filed a motion to permit oral feeding of Terri, which is not considered a life-prolonging procedure under Florida law.

The babies moved more quickly from intravenous to oral feeding.

An infant with hypoglycemia is fed sugar (glucose) intravenously, given more frequent oral feedings, or both.