Title: Pediatric disorders of feeding, nutrition, and metabolism /
Authors: Krieger, Ingeborg
Publisher: Wiley,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Metabolism, Inborn Errors; Nutrition disorders in children; Metabolic disorders in children; Children Diseases Nutritional aspects; Nutrition Disorders; Child; Infant
Abstract: Abstract: A college text presents normal and abnormal conditions that require nutritional considerations for medical students, pediatric house staff, and practitioners caring for children. The considerations relate to nutrition as a cause of disease, as a tool in diagnosis of metabolic disorders, or the use of nutrition in therapy. Major emphasis is placed on nutritional deficiencies and diseases of overnutrition. Genetic disorders that resemble nutritional deficiencies and diseases that respond to nutritional therapy also are covered (e.g., select inborn metabolic errors, gastrointestinal disorders, allergy or immunodeficiency diseases). Topics relevant to the entire health care team include infant feeding disorders, emotional deprivation syndromes, obesity, and anorexia nervosa, and their associated psychological factors. Practical, current therapeutic approaches and guidelines are given for each condition or disease, stressing health maintenance. (wz).
Contents: Nutritional requirements as a function of age -- Foodstuffs for infant feeding -- Nutritional assessment -- Infant feeding disorders -- Growth failure without organic disease -- Growth abnormalities in organic disease -- Nutrition and the central nervous system -- Nutritional effects on the immunodefense and blood-forming systems -- Nutrition in gastrointestinal disorders -- Vitamin deficiencies -- Mineral deficiencies -- Disorders of nutrient excess -- Nutritional management of inborn errors of metabolism.