Infants with inborn metabolic disorder need special food
Channel: Pristine Science
Date: 2015-05-07

Ensuring good health of infants is of critical importance. There is a need of special food formulation for infants suffering from inborn metabolic disorders. Infants who suffer from such genetic disorder may lack one or two enzymes and thus the body stops metabolizing certain types of nutrients like amino acid, fatty acid and sugar. PKU, MSUD, Cystinuria are some of such disorders. Sometimes they are not diagnosed or treated properly. To address such problems, food devoid of nutrients for which the infant lacks enzyme for needs to be produced. Know about it from Raghu, well-known food and science writer.