Nutritional Therapy
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Description
Nutritional therapy is a professional healthcare focused on the treatment and prevention of diseases through diet modification and proper nutrition.
A nutrition therapist is a qualified healthcare professional who adjusts patients' eating habits. The goal is to improve health and quality of life.
Patients seek a nutritional therapist for:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Obesity or malnutrition
- Celiac disease
- Crohn's disease
- Kidney, liver, heart diseases
- Oncological diseases
Facts
- Outpatient examination
- Examination lasts 30 minutes
A nutritional therapist works with patients individually:
- Consults patients, determines eating habits and metabolic needs
- Examines patients (height, weight, overview of diagnoses and allergies)
- Determines patients' needs (amount of total energy, carbohydrate-fat-protein ratio, vitamins and minerals, fluids)
- Creates a menu and diet plan
After analyzing the health condition, the nutritional therapist adjusts the menu and recommends special diets (e.g. gluten-free, low-carb, residue-free).
For patients with special needs,will determine, e.g. special nutrition given through a stomach tube or parenteral nutrition (infusions).
