Nutrition & Disease Management

This section brings you information on nutritional care and disease with focus on enteral and parenteral nutrition, and nutrition support for a wide range of conditions such as infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal diseases, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. It also includes the impact of nutrition on aging and frailty ,critical care support post-surgery and oncology care

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Role Of Nutritional Management During & Beyond Diarrhea

Diarrhea remains one of the most common causes of mortality in children under five years of age in India. Latest NFHS-5 data suggests prevalence of diarrhea in the 2 weeks preceding the survey to be 9.2% in children under 5 years of age. However

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Role of Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Disorders in Infants

Functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) is a widely prevalent global condition affecting infants from the first day of their life to their later years. Healthy gastrointestinal (GI) microflora plays an important role in combating common GI

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Meeting the iron needs of young children (infographics)

Meeting the iron needs of young children

Iron is hard to metabolize due to its poor solubility. It can have adverse health effects unless its levels in the body are maintained between adequate thresholds. Insufficient iron leads to anemia, while excessive iron causes oxidative damage in the

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