Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases and Developmental Disorders

Edited by Shirley W. Ekvall, Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Cincinnati and Chief of Nutrition, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and Valli K. Ekvall, Community Consultant, Children with Developmental Disorders, Indianapolis, USA DESCRIPTION This much-needed resource comprehensively reviews the current status of research on nutrition in chronic diseases and developmental disorders of children and helps translate this research into clinical practice. It provides a wealth of information on the nutritional implications of diseases' states; how nutrition can affect brain development, learning and behaviour; and how to improve the health status of paediatric patients through nutritional measures. Assessment, prevention, and treatment are all covered. The chapters focus on biochemical and clinical abnormalities, techniques for evaluating nutrition including behaviour, nutritional management, and follow-up procedures. Well-organized and user-friendly, the book will continue to be of great value to paediatricians, nutritionists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, family practitioners, and dieticians as well as students and residents in those fields. The second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on botanicals, genetics and nutritional aspects of birth defects, vegetarianism, obesity/eating disorders, autism, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, among other topics. CONTENTS A: Nutrition and growth 1 Shirley W. Ekvall, Part 1: Preventive nutrition Valli K. Ekvall & Eileen Fowles: Prenatal growth in pregnancy 2 Barbara Niedbala & Shirley W. Ekvall: Postnatal growth in infancy 3 Oussama Itani, Barbara Niedbala & Reginald Tsang: The small-for-gestational-age infant and problems of prematurity B: Nutritional evaluation 4 Shirley W. Ekvall, Valli K. Ekvall, Jennifer Walberg-Wolfe & Wendy Nehring: Nutritional assessment - all levels and ages 5 Cecilia Rokusek, Elvira Jarka, Barbary Hanley & Joan Earle Hahn: Community-based nutrition services and resources 6 Theresa Mayes & Michele Gottschlich: Nutritional support following injury 7 Karen Dolins & Martica Heaner: Sports nutrition for children 8 Georgia Hodgkin: Vegetarian diets for children Part 2: Chronic diseases and developmental disorders A: Neurological and developmental 9 Linda Bandini, Shirley W. Ekvall & Virginia Stallings: Cerebral palsy 10 Donald Olsen, Tuomas Westermarck & Shirley W. Ekvall: Seizures and epilepsy 11 Shirley W. Ekvall & Frank Cerniglia: Myelomeningocele 12 Valli K. Ekvall, Shirley W. Ekvall & Eric Bonsall: Nutrients, neurotransmitters and brain dysfunction 13 Vivianne Nordin & Shirley W. Ekvall: Autism 14 Agnes Huber & Shirley W. Ekvall: The fetal alcohol syndrome 15 George Capone, David Muller & Shirley W. Ekvall: Down syndrome 16 Helen McCune & Daniel Driscoll: Prader-Willi syndrome 17 Genila Bilbat, Carmen Cuffari & SakkuBai Naidu: Rett syndrome B: Behaviour and eating disorders 18 Shirley W. Ekvall, Linda Bandini, Valli K. Ekvall & Carol Curtin: Childhood obesity 19 Valli K. Ekvall, Shirley W. Ekvall & Susan Mayes: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 20 Barbara Niedbala & Mark Swanson: Failure to thrive 21 Valli K. Ekvall & Shirely W. Ekvall: Rumination 22 Valli K. Ekvall & Shirley W. Ekvall: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Eating Disorders 23 Agnes Huber & Shirley W. Ekvall: Lead Toxicity and Pica C: Feeding disorders 24 Harriet Cloud, Shirley W. Ekvall & Linda Hicks: Feeding problems of the child with special health care needs 25 Nedra Christensen & Howard Saal: Cleft lip and/or cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies D: Drugs 26 Rudolf Bauer, Andrea Hrastinger, Birgit Dietz & Gail Mahady: Botanicals in pediatrics 27 Ninfa Springer & Marshal Schlafer: Drug therapy and nutrition E: Miscellaneous chronic diseases 28 Amal Assa'ad & Steve Sutton: Al