Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 2 [Hardcover]

Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 2 is a very useful resource for all clinicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants.? This volume covers a wide range of topics that support wellness in infants through the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, malnutrition, and developmental and genetic abnormalities. A variety of chapters deal with nutrients for infants with disabilities, surgery, and other special needs.

The sections in this volume discuss GI Tract Considerations, Formulas, probiotics, hormones and lipids in the health and disease of infants, and the growth and development of infants. In Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 2, a wide range of nutritional and food related therapies to prevent or ameliorate disease, growth retardation and promote health are outlined. The latest developments in diagnostic procedures and nutritional support are also included. Written by a group of international experts, this volume is an indispensable new reference for clinicians with an interest in the nutrition and health of pregnant mothers and their infants.

Growth and Body Composition in Children with Chronic Disease.- Nutritional support in inborn errors of metabolism.- Ketogenic Diet as treatment option for infants with intractable epileptic syndrome.- Short Bowel Syndrome: Management and treatment.- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.- Nutritional support in Crohns disease.- Nutritional requirements and support in liver disease.- Normal and aberrant? craniofacial development and nutrition in infants.- Role of gangliosides in neurological development and the influence of dietary sources.- Dietary methods to treat acute gastroenteritis.- Celiac disease in infants: Prevention and dietary treatment.- The Nutritional aspects of intestinal failure therapy.- Hormone therapy to improve growth in infants with chronic kidney disease.- Nutrition of infants and HIV.- Undernutrition andlsI