Practical Paediatric Nutrition

E. M. E. Poskitt

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780407004085
• eBook ISBN: 9781483141565
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Gynecology, Obstetrics & Midwifery

Practical Paediatric Nutrition deals with conventional children's nutrition in a clinical or community setting. The book reviews nutritional assessment using three complementary methods, namely, clinical nutritional assessment (symptoms: physical wasting, rickets), anthropometric assessment (manifestations: abnormal measurements, skinfold thickness), and biochemical assessment (analysis: hematology, urine). The text also addresses nutrition in pregnancy and its effects on the fetus. The book notes that selected food supplementation has negligible effects in the mean fetal weight of malnourished populations compared with well-nourished populations. Placental insufficiency can also lead to fetal malnutrition. The text discusses breast feeding, cow's milk formulas, soya-based formulas, and "follow-on formulas." For low birth weight infants, the choice of feeds are the infants' own mothers' milk, expressed or banked; other banked breast milk; fortified human milk (own mother's or banked); standard infant formula; or preterm infant formula. The book also explores the problem of weaning and failure to gain height or weight at the expected rates. The book is helpful for pediatricians, obstetricians, gynecologists, nurses, practitioners in general medicine, and administrators of public health services.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Clinical nutritional assessment
• Chapter 2: Nutrition in pregnancy and its effects on the fetus
• Chapter 3: Breast feeding
• Chapter 4: Formula feeding
• Chapter 5: Low-birthweight infants
• Chapter 6: Weaning
• Chapter 7: Failure to thrive
• Chapter 8: Protein-energy malnutrition
• Chapter 9: Mineral deficiencies
• Chapter 10: Vitamin deficiencies
• Chapter 11: Problems of vegetarian and unusual diets
• Chapter 12: Nutrition and the teeth
• Chapter 13: Inborn errors of metabolism
• Chapter 14: Intolerant reactions to food
• Chapter 15: Gastrointestinal disorders
• Chapter 16: Parenteral nutrition – intravenous feeding (IVF)
• Chapter 17: Renal problems
• Chapter 18: Diabetes
• Chapter 19: Obesity and anorexia nervosa
• Chapter 20: Adolescence
• Chapter 21: Children’s nutrition and later health
• Appendix
• Index