This publication is a derivative product summarizing the global, evidence-informed recommendations and principles of the World Health Organization that address malnutrition in all its forms in adolescents with the aim of ensuring healthy lives and well-being among this group. The purpose of this publicat...
Mehta, NM;
Mehta, NM;
Irving, SY;
Coss-Bu, JA;
Vermilyea, S;
Farrington, EA;
McKeever, L;
Hall, AM;
Goday, PS;
Braunschweig, C.
OBJECTIVES: Feeding difficulties are frequent in children with neurological impairments and can be associated with undernutrition, growth failure, micronutrients deficiencies, osteopenia, and nutritional comorbidities. Gastrointestinal problems including gastroesophageal reflux disease, constipation, and...
Body Composition,
Body Weights and Measures,
Diet Therapy/methods,
Enteral Nutrition/methods,
Gastrointestinal Diseases,
Myofunctional Therapy,
Nervous System Diseases/complications,
Nutrition Assessment,
Nutrition Disorders,
Nutrition Disorders/therapy,
Nutrition Policy,
Nutritional Requirements,
Prognosis,
Gastrointestinal Diseases/ethnology,
Gastrointestinal Diseases/diagnosis,
Gastrointestinal Diseases/therapy,
Nervous System Diseases/therapy
HIV infection can impair the nutritional status of infected children from early in life. Growth faltering and reduction in length and height often occurs even before opportunistic infections or other symptoms in almost all infected children. The content of these guidelines acknowledges that wasting and ...
