Dietitian
Dietitian
Our Pediatric Registered Dietitians recognize the importance of nutritional balance for the health and well-being of your child. Our dietitians will use nutritional assessments to create therapeutic dietary plans with individualized goals to monitor your child’s growth and development. Recognizing that healthy nutrition & growth are of significant importance during childhood, Nurses ’n Kids participates in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, providing well balanced meals for breakfast, lunch and snacks at no cost to you as the parent or guardian.
Nutritional Therapy helps to promote healthy eating habits and treat:
- Special nutritional needs for premature newborns
- Food Allergies and Feeding Intolerance
- Food selectivity, abnormal eating patterns and refusal
- Diabetic meal planning, carbohydrate counting and portion control
- Overweight screening and prevention
- Gastrointestinal Disorders and Reflux
- Metabolic Disorders
- Failure to Thrive
- Malnourishment and Malabsorption
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Gluten Sensitivity and Lactose Intolerance
- Tube feeding formula and tolerance