Manual of Pediatric Nutrition

Product Details
Book Publisher: B.C. Decker (April, 2000)
ISBN: 1550090917
Book author: Kristy M. Hendricks, Christopher Duggan, W. Allan Walker, Kristy M. P. Hendricks RD MS ScD, Christopher Duggan MD MPH, W. Allan Walker MD

Book 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: the 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.