by Vanessa Shaw (Editor)
This textbook on paediatric dietetics has been edited for the Paediatric Group of the British Dietetic Association by experts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London with contributions from leading paediatric dietitians. The book is intended to satisfy the need for a standard work on the subject for practising and student dietitians and medical and nursing personnel. It is comprehensive and covers all disorders of the body systems relating to nutrition. It includes enteral and parenteral feeding, the nutrition and feeding of premature infants, inborn errors of metabolism, diseases of organ systems, lipid disorders, HIV and AIDS, peroxisomal disorders, nutrition in cancer, eating disorders, nutrition for children with feeding difficulties, and the special requirements of children from different cultural groups.