Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases and Developmental Disorders: Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment

This uniquely valuable resource helps readers translate research on nutrition in chronic diseases and developmental disorders of children into clinical practice. It provides a wealth of information on the nutritional implications of diseases' states; how nutrition can affect brain development, learning and behavior; and how to improve the health status of pediatric patients through nutritional measures. The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated and includesnew chapters on botanicals, genetics and nutritional aspects of birth defects, vegetarianism, obesity/eating disorders, autism, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, among other topics. A reviewer of the First Edition wrote that, "This work is without parallel." That remains true.

The most comprehensive book on the subject

PART 1: PREVENTIVE NUTRITION; A: Nutrition and growth; 1. Prenatal growth in pregnancy; 2. Postnatal growth in infancy; 3. The small-for-gestational-age infant and problems of prematurity; B: Nutritional evaluation; 4. Nutritional assessment - all levels and ages; 5. Community-based nutrition services and resources; 6. Nutritional support following injury; 7. Sports nutrition for children; 8. Vegetarian diets for children; PART 2: CHRONIC DISEASES AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; A: Neurological and developmental; 9. Cerebral palsy; 10. Seizures and epilepsy; 11. Myelomeningocele; 12. Nutrients, neurotransmitters and brain dysfunction; 13. Autism; 14. The fetal alcohol syndrome; 15. Down syndrome; 16. Prader-Willi syndrome; 17. Rett syndrome; B: Behaviour and eating disorders; 18. Childhood obesity; 19. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; 20. Failure to thrive; 21. Rumination; 22. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Eating Disorders; 23. Lead Toxicity and Pica; C: Feeding disorders; 24. Feeding problems of the child with special health care needs; 25. Cleft lip and/or cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies; D: Drugs; 26. Botanicals in pediatrics; 27. Drug therapy and nutrition; E: Miscellaneous chronic diseases; 28. Allergy and immunological disorders in children; 29. HIV infection in children; 30. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; 31. Children with cancer; 32. Congenital heart disease and lipid disorders in children; 33. Chronic renal disease in children; 34. Sickle cell anemia; 35. Gastrointestinal disorders of infancy and childhood (with nutrition support and probiotics); 36. Constipation and fiber; PART 3: HEREDITARY METABOLIC DISORDERS; A: Disorders of amino acid metabolism; 37. Homocystinuria; 38. Maple syrup urine disease; 39. Phenylketonuria and maternal phenylketonuria; 40. Tyrosinemia; 41. Urea cycle pathway; B: Organic acidemias; 42. Methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia; 43. Isovaleric acidemia, 3-methylcrotonyl glycinuria; 44. Glutaric acidemia type I and 2-ketoadipic acidemia; C: Fatty acid oxidation disorders; 45. Adrenoleukodystrophy and other peroxisomal disorders; 46. Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation defects; 47. Mitochondrial disorders; D: Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism; 48. Insulin-dependent and type II diabetes; 49. Galactosemia; 50. Lactose intolerance; 51. Disorders of fructose metabolism; 52. Glycogen storage disease; E: Miscellanous genetic disorders; 53. Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome; 54. Celiac disease; 55. Cystic fibrosis and bronchiopulmonary dysplasia; 56. Fragile X syndrome; 57. Hyperuricemias (Lesch-Nyhan syndrome); 58. Williams syndrome; 59. Wilson's disease; 60. Nutritional aspects of birth defects