Banana puree

So my, uh, my palate's cleanser today [chuckles] uh, is an article we've been looking forward to sharing.

It's called We're Going Bananas: The Effectiveness and Safety of Banana Puree as an Intervention for Improving Oral Feeding in a Level Four NICU.

This is in the Journal of Perinatology, lead author Cara, uh, Cara Carr, uh, senior author Rita Ryan.

Um, and they really wanted to evaluate, uh, it's kind of like a pilot study, the safety and feasibility of banana puree.

I guess I should say it's a safety, you know, study to evaluate the safety and feasibility of banana puree thickener in neonatal intensive care unit patients who have dysphagia.

Um, so a little bit of the background.

This is something that we've really been talking a lot about, um, on the podcast and in our own unit probably for the last six to 12 months, but really spending so much of our NICU resources go to those early few weeks in the most critical patients, and we should be spending a lot of time and effort there.

I mean, I think our families would be thrilled if we say, "You know, plantains now can be, plantains, bananas [laughs], we can have them all, thank you." [laughs] Um, I know, uh, one of our clerks would be thrilled to start-

So my, my palate cleanser today is an article we've been looking forward to sharing.

It's called we're going bananas, the effectiveness and safety of banana puree as an intervention for improving oral feeding in a level for NICU.

This is in the Journal of Perinatology, lead author Kara Carr, a senior author, Rita Ryan.

And they really wanted to evaluate, it's kind of like a pilot study, the safety and feasibility of banana puree.

I guess I should say it's a safety, you know, study to evaluate the safety and feasibility of banana puree thickener in neonatal intensive care unit patients who have dysphagia.

So a little bit of the background.

This is something that we've really been talking a lot about on the podcast and in our own unit probably for the last six to 12 months.

The 22-weekers are not getting their first feed with some bananas.