The Clinical Nutrition Department staff assists physicians in monitoring the nutritional status of all patients. Clinical dietitians identify patients at nutritional risk and plan nutrition intervention as needed. This function includes the education of families who are taking their child home on a modified diet and monitoring patients receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition. The drinks are too high in sugar and may actually promote more diarrhea. Always check with your doctor when your child has diarrhea.
Most parents worry if their toddler has a small and erratic appetite.
This is usually normal for a child in this age group. If you think that your teen isn't drinking enough milk, then offer yogurt, cheese or even ice cream to supply the calcium needed for the stage of rapid bone growth that most teens experience.