Children who rely on gastric fistulas to receive nutrition via an external feeding tube that connects directly to the stomach are being given the option of pureed foods instead of conventional formula at an increasing number of special needs schools.
A survey on the effects of the special pureed meals indicated that they had a positive influence on students' physical and mental health.
On Dec. 24, a teacher told student Yuna Nishiyama about the meal she was about to receive at Tokyo Metropolitan Mizumoto Koai Gakuen, a special needs education school, in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.
