After a positive Guthrie - what next? Dietary management for the child with phenylketonuria

Article Abstract:

The Guthrie screening method allowed the early screening of phenylketonuria and treatment with diet. The low-phenylalanine diet is artificial, complex and modified to meet the child's developmental feeding habits. Different low-protein foodstuffsare used at various stages of infancy and childhood and must be tailored to theindividual's tolerance for phenylalanine. The question on when to discontinue the low-phenylalanine diet remains unanswered. In many countries, the diet is continued until brain maturation is no longer likely affected to prevent mentalretardation.

Phenylketonuria

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Dietary treatment of dermatitis herpetiformis

Article Abstract:

Patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) and granular IgA have a gluten sensitive enteropathy that is responsive to a gluten-free diet. The noxious agent of DH can be found in the ethanol-soluble gluten (gliadin) fraction of cereals and avoidance of these gluten sources can reduce the skin and enteric manifestations of coeliac disease. The use dapsone to treat the skin lesions gradually discontinued while the immunologic reactions in the gut suppressed by a gluten-free diet.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Usage, Celiac disease, Gluten-free diet, Dermatitis herpetiformis

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Dietary survey in a Chinese population

Article Abstract:

A study of the food habits of 3,683 people in Tianjin, China, aged between 15 and 64 years, revealed that the urban populace consumed more fat and protein-rich food in comparison with that of people living in rural areas. The food consumed by both groups was deficient in vitamin A, calcium, riboflavin and zinc, but had a very high cholesterol content. Sodium and sodium:potassium ratios were significantly high in the food consumed by both sections of people.

Food and nutrition, Tianjin, China

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