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Description
The CHARLIE is Kozie’s baby, toddler, and little boy medically adaptive one-piece carefully designed to adapt with many medical treatments. Designed to provide safe, adorable, and comfortable dressing. This adorable Sensory soft one-piece body suit offers all front snap closure and snap closure at both shoulders and crotch.The overlaying belt/band covers the belly for added support and protection from little grabbing hands. Safe, easy no overhead dressing required. Our specialized one-piece body suit was designed with the assistance of Pediatric Nurses, Special Needs Parents, and Sensory Therapists and includes easy access for the following medical treatments:
1. ENTERNAL FEEDING/GASTROSTOMY TUBE FEEDING(G-TUBE) to support children with certain medical conditions who cannot eat enough food by mouth, to enhance children’s nutrition, and to aid the metabolic demands of the stress of illness such as:
§ Congenital heart defects as with ventricular or a trial septal defects or severe Malformations such as; tetralogy or Fallot, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
§ Congenital Anomalies of the upper Gastrointestinal Tract such; as Esophageal Atresia, Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Esophageal Duplications, Developmental Obstructive Defects of the stomach such as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Gastric atresia, congenital gastricobstruction, and Duodenal Obstruction/atresia, etc.
§ Metabolic disorders such as; Adrenal Hypoplasia, Argininosuccinate lyase deficiency, Argininosuccinic Aciduria, etc.
§ Neurological Impairment as with Massive Brain Damage. For example Infantile Cerebral Palsy, Anoxia Brain Injury, Brain Tumors, Cerebral Atrophy, Cerebellar Hypoplasia, Cerebral Cavernous Malformation and Head Trauma, etc.
§ Genetic syndromes/Chromosomal syndromes causing feeding/eating disorders such as; Alagille Syndrome, Alexander’s Disease,Alfi’s Syndrome, Allan Herdon Dudley Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Antley-bixler Syndrome, Barth Syndrome, Bartter Syndrom, Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, Bohring, Costello Syndrome, Silver-Russel Syndrome, Franceschetti syndrome, Noonan-syndrome, Corneila deLage Syndrome etc. Syndrome related malformations such as heart defect in Down syndrome, choanal atresia in CHARGE-syndrome and many more
§ Psychosomatic/psychiatric eating disorders such as infantile anorexia
§ Children who suffer from cancer may need ENS during chemotherapy to help prevent them from losing weight.
§ Children suffering from renal insufficiency or renal diseases often lack appetite
§ Prematurity
§ Absent Swallow Reflex, Achalasia, Aspiration
§ Craniofacial such as Cervical Lymphangioma, Cleft pallet, etc.
§ Some children with Autism
2. TRACHEOSTOMIES to relieve an obstruction to breathing. This may be found in the following conditions and more
§ Tracheal/Bronchial Malasia
§ Polyps and weak muscles in the trachea
§ Inability to clear mucus for the lungs and airway
§ Premature births
§ Severe breathing conditions
§ Tumors such as cystic hygroma
§ Severe infection such as epiglottitis or croup
§ Subglottic stenosis
§ Tracheomalacia
§ Vocal cord paralysis
§ Laryngeal spasms or injury
§ Congenital abnormalities of the airway
§ Obstruction of airway
§ Treacher Collins
§ Pierre Robin Syndromes
§ Severe neck or mouth injuries
§ Airway burns
§ Obstructive sleep apnea
§ Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
§ Chronic pulmonary disease
§ Chest wall injury
§ Diaphragmdys function
§ Paralyzingor weakening chest muscles and diaphragm
§ Aspiration
§ Fracture of cervical vertebrae
§ Spinal cord injury
§ Long-termun consciousness or coma
§ Centralapnea
§ Congenital Central Hypoventilation
§ Facial surgery
§ Facial burns
§ Anaphylaxis
3. PORTS AND CATHETERS, Porta a Catheter, or Port a Cath are often necessary for IV medicines, fluids, taking blood samples,and other IV treatment requirements. A few conditions may require a port or Cath such as
§ Cancer treatments, Chemotherapy
§ Cystic Fibrosis
§ Diabetes Mellitus
§ Pancreatic Insufficiency
§ Chronic Illnesses
§ Etc.
Colors Available: Grey with navy
Fabric / Material: 100% Cotton
Made in USA
Washing instructions: Machine wash in cold with like colors, Tumble dry low, only non-chlorine bleach