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Summary: A pediatric dietitian specializes in the nutritional needs of children under the age of 18, and one is consulted to help diagnose and treat chronic and acute illnesses. Find out how a pediatric dietitian helps improve nutrition in children with helpful information from a practicing dietitian in this free video on health jobs.
Cher Pastore, M.S., R.D., C.D.E, is a New York-based dietitian whose well-balanced eating plan has empowered hundreds of patients to make positive choices. Instead of focusing on...read more
"Hello my name is Cher Pastore and I'm a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with CAP Nutrition LLC in New York City. A pediatric dietitian is anyone who specializes in children under the age of 18. Usually in an acute or a chronic illness. So for example, if a child has food allergies, you would be asked to help the child remove the foods from their diet and of course give them a well balanced diet based on the foods that they can't eat. Many children have many allergies. One of the most common is milk so of course you would try soy based products to help alleviate some of the problems. Also you could be a pediatric dietitian in a hospital based setting. In that particular case, it generally involves a very acute illness and sometimes the baby or child can't even eat at all and they have to be fed nutrition through maybe a tube or through the vein just to sustain their nutritional needs. Further, you could consult maybe in high school because children now are becoming extremely overweight so you would have to go into the school to help them give them guidance, maybe give them alternate snacks, help them avoid some of the high fat, high sugar foods that are out there so they can eat healthy, balanced meals. There is one particular diet that you can use for children with autism. It is slightly controversial and very hard to follow. It's called the keogenic diet. It is extremely challenging and slightly less to actually in a controlled setting in order to do this. It's basically an extremely high protein diet and your body is breaking down and you produce this thing called ketone. It has been shown to work in terms of autism. For ADHD, it's not been extremely well documented, but circumstantial evidence shows that you should avoid high sugar foods, anything processed, no sods and try to eat natural, unprocessed, low sugar foods."
eHow Article: What Is a Pediatric Dietitian?