Maternal and Child Medicine

The course aims to provide students with indications on nutritional and dietary principles in healthy children with acute and / or chronic pathology. Stages of life considered: from premature to full-term newborns, from neonatal age to school age and adolescence.
Particular attention to the first year of life. Promotion of breastfeeding. Critical approach to dietary recommendations in children. Diet therapy in: inborn errors of metabolism, celiac disease, cystic fibrosis.
The course also aims to assess the needs during pregnancy and lactation.

At the end of the course the student must demonstrate to be able to:
- assess the nutritional status of the subject in question, to define the contributions and needs with respect to the underlying pathology.
- set up a program for food prevention and a healthy lifestyle for pregnant women and nursing mothers.
- set up a program of food prevention and correct lifestyle in the child in the various stages of growth.
- Correctly set up and manage dietary-therapeutic interventions in pediatric age.