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Medical Nutrition Therapy
behavioral and lifestyle changes required to impact long-term eating habits and health
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Medical Nutrition Therapy includes:
- 1. Performing a comprehensive nutrition assessment & determining the nutrition diagnosis
- 2. Planning and implementing a nutrition intervention using evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines
- 3. Monitoring and evaluating an individual’s progress over subsequent visits with the RD
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GI disorders
Celiac, cirrhosis, Crohn’s
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Immunocompromised populations
- Food allergy, HIV/AIDS, transplant
- Food safety
- Interactions with their medications/ medications that compete with vit/minerals
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Oncology
Prevention, treatment
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Pediatrics
- Feeding (lactation), FTT (failure to thrive),
- IEM (inborn …)
- ---Glycogen storage disease
- ---Genetic, cant metabolize something normally
- ---Picky eating, breast feeding
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Respiratory/Pulmonary
- Cause mucus build up
- Cause retaining of water
- Bad cold and have hard time breathing and take so much energy to breath don’t want to eat-Caloric intake decrease
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Oral Nutritional Support
- enteral
- (tube fed)
- Uses only portions of the GI tract
- **Important not have the whole GI bypassed bc very hard to get back working
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Parenteral
- Bypass whole GI and taken in intravenously
- Vit, min, water, glucose, electrolytes
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