Wheat-Free - the early years
For infants and children from aged 6 months and up who have been advised to follow a wheat-free diet due to suspected allergy or intolerance.
Classification: DT (Dietitian)
Advice is complex, condition specific and requires a Dietitian with knowledge, skills and experience in the condition.
Credit:
40
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To support patients to safely identify, understand and manage their intolerance/allergy by safely following a diet that excludes wheat.
The Target Group will:
- Know what and how to choose
appropriate foods to meet nutritional and energy
requirements for health and to thrive. - Be able to read food labels to make appropriate
food choices. - Know what the guideline requirements are for
calcium (and other nutrients as appropriate), and
to meet these through appropriate food/drink
choices. - Know about the different weaning stages of the diet.
- Mackenzie and Venter 2010 (unpublished), Wheat allergy and intolerance report. Technical Report, University of Portsmouth (unpublished) NABIM
- Sapone et al. Spectrum of gluten-related disorders: consensus on new nomenclature and classification, BMC Medicine 2012
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