Description: This comprehensive guide provides an overview of nutritional care for pediatric patients. From cover to cover, it discusses the proper nutrition for both healthy and ill children. Topics covered include: teh development of feeding skills, nutritional assessment, sports nutrition, feeding guidelines, vitamin and mineral supplements, nutrition for specific disease states, and more.
Key Features:
- Discusses everything from vegetarian diets to enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Provides specific guidelines for the nutritional needs of children with AIDS/HIV, burns, cardiac disease, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, eating disorders, food allergies, gastrointestinal diseases, hepatobiliary diseases, hyperlipidemia, malnutrition, obesity, and much more
- Includes easy-to-follow decision trees and algorithmic charts
- Helpful charts and tables quickly deliver need-to-know information
Audience: Practicing nutritionists, pediatricians, and students.
