Nutrition Screening Tools
A range of practical tools including growth charts and nutrition screening, designed to help professionals to help their patients. The MNA®, for example, is a validated nutrition screening and assessment tool that can identify geriatric patients aged 65 and above who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.
A paediatrician’s guide to nutritional recommendations for infants and toddlers!
Growth charts are an integral part of a paediatrician’s practice. It helps determine the child’s nutritional status and, more importantly, helps evaluate if the child’s physiological requirements for nutrients are being met adequately. Length/height-for-age is an important indicator of attainment of appropriate linear growth in children.
Growth charts are an integral part of a paediatrician’s practice. It helps determine the child’s nutritional status and, more importantly, helps evaluate if the child’s physiological requirements for nutrients are being met adequately. Body weight-for-age is an important indicator of growth at the child’s age at a given visit. Low weight-for-age indicates if a child is underweight or severely underweight.
Developmental milestones are behaviours or physical skills observed in infants and children as they grow and develop.