Health1 Super Speciality Hospitals believes that diet plays a major role in the promotion of health and well being of an individual. Nutritionists are key members of health care teams. They contribute a broad range of skills as clinicians. We have qualified and experienced Nutritionists to fulfill patient’s nutritional needs as per their disease.
The main role of a Clinical Nutritionist is to assess the patient's nutritional needs and develop a food plan for the patient and to work with doctors and nurses to develop the correct food plan for the patient based on the medical needs. Nutritionists work with patients throughout the lifecycle and they can help to prevent diseases, obesity by promoting healthy diets and also helps in speedy recovery of the disease. This facility is available to all patients in OPD and IPD patients in Health1 Super Speciality Hospitals.
Roles and Responsibilities of Nutritionist :
- Good nutrition is a key component of recovering from surgery or illness
- The Department of Dietetics & Nutrition provides nutritional care, advice and education to patients while they are in the hospital and even after they are discharged
- Identifying nutrition problems and assessing the nutritional status of patients in a clinical setting.
- Developing diet plans and counseling patients on special diet modifications.
- The team ensures optimum nutrition for all patients undergoing or recovering various treatments. Dietary intervention in people can improve tolerance to various medical procedures in addition to improving quality of life.
Some of the reasons to refer Dietician :
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Diabetes
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Heart health
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Cancer
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Infant feeding and picky eating
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Allergies
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Digestive concerns
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Malnutrition
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breastfeeding
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Sports nutrition
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Vegetarian and vegan diets
Types of Diet offered by us :
- Regular or normal diet
- Liquid diet
- Soft diet
- Restricted diet
- Therapeutic diet
- Diabetic diet
- Renal diet
- Bland diet
- Others (As advised by the Clinical Consultant Doctor)
