Paediatric Nutrition

Code:

CN41005

Acronym:

NUTPED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Health Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Nutrition Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CNUP	87	Plano oficial	4	-	3,5	35	94,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Provide theoretical and practical knowledge about food and nutrition in healthy and pathology children and adolescents.

Program

Theoretical Classes:
. Presentation
. Breastfeeding
- Lactation Physiology
- Breastfeeding Composition
- Epidemiology and promotion of breastfeeding
. Artificial breast
- Diet Milk
- Diet Formulas
. Food diversification in the 1st year of life
- General
- Objectives
- Age of Onset
. Nutritional Assessment
. Anthropometric Assessment
- Evaluation Socio-Economic, Cultural and Health
- Evaluation of Dietary Habits
. Protein-Energy Malnutrition
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis
- Forecast
- Prevention
. Preschool and School Food
. Obesity in children
- Diagnosis
- Evolution
- Prevention
. Diabetes Mellitus in Childhood and Adolescence
. Digestive Pathology
- Celiac Disease
. Enteral nutrition in pediatrics
- Calculation of nutritional requirements
- Access roads
- Monitoring of child / adolescent
. Metabolic Diseases

Theoretical and Pratical Classes:
1. Breastfeeding
- Advantages of Breastfeeding
- Technique Breastfeeding
2. Artificial Breast
- Indications, precautions, contraindications and limitations
- Needs
- Clinical case
3. Artificial Breast
- Continuation of previous session
- Clinical Cases
4. Diversified Power in the 1st Year of Life
- Precautions, limitations, indications and contraindications
- Clinical Cases
5. Diversified Power in the 1st Year of Life
- Continuation of previous session
- Clinical Cases
6. Nutritional Assessment of the Child / Adolescent
- Anthropometric Assessment: Growth curves and reference patterns
- Clinical case
7. Obesity in children
- Therapeutic Nutrition
- Clinical case
8. Protein-Energy Malnutrition
- Therapeutic Nutrition
- Clinical case
9. Enteral Nutrition in Pediatrics
- Methods and Recommendations
- Nutritional requirements
10. Celiac disease in the Child / Adolescent
- Nutritional therapy and family, school and social orientation
- Clinical case
11. Therapeutic Nutritional Diabetes Mellitus
- Diabetical Needs
- Schedule insulin
- Recommendations
- Clinical case
12. Metabolic Diseases
- Clinical case

Mandatory literature

W Allan Walker and John B. Watkins, MD; Nutrition in Pediatrics. Science and clinical Application, Little, Brown and Company, 1985
António Guerra; Alimentação e Nutrição nos Primeiros Anos de Vida - 7º Workshop Nestlé Nutrition, Nestlé Nutrition Institute, 2008
DS Mac Laren and D Burman; Textbook of Pediatric Nutrition, Churchill, 1982
C Ricour, J Ghisolfi, G Putet, O Goulet; Traité de Nutrition Pédiatrique, Maloine, 1993
DG Kelts and EG Jones; Manual of Pediatric Nutrition, Little, Brown and Company, 1984
Khursheed N, Jeejeebhy MB; Terapeutica Actualizada en Nutrition, CEA,S.A, 1989
BL Wardley, JWL Puntis and LS Taitz; Handbook of Child Nutrition, Oxford University Press, 1997
J Videira Amaral; tratado de nutrição clinica, Abbott Laboratórios, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical Classes
Theoretical and pratical classes with discussion of clinical cases of different pathologies in children

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Mark higher than 9.5

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Exam, with multiple choice questions and development issues.