NUTRITION

Medical nutritional therapy (MNT) is a type of nutritional specific administration to individuals. This therapy is medicine directed. It refers to growth and provisions of giving nutritional diagnosis. Medical nutritional therapy is planned depending on individual’s family or hereditary history, psychosocial history, dietary examination, healing history and earthy examination. Main objective of Medical nutritional therapy is as follows.

• Individual medical application requirement for therapy
• Henceforth setting devise plan to implement the therapy
• Nursing and nutrition care plan development
• Process of administrating the therapy
• Evaluation or interpretation of therapy result

Nutritional assessment components

Healing history: Healing history gives a brief description of disease and surgery for infectious disease if required. The relationship of food components with medication plays a major role in human food consumption. This is because medication interacts mostly with nutritional components. Nutrition elements like vitamins, protein, and herbal and mineral supplementation help in nutritional balance. Supplementation quantification is necessary as it decides medication dose response.

Earthy examination: Earthy examination depends on height, weight, age, sex, body mass index, anthropometric interpretation and circumference of arm and waist. Physical examination of skin coloration, nails and hair helps in easy interpretation of nutritional deficiency. Individual suffering from paralysis requires increased nourishing supplements to heal the bed sores. Sudden increase or decrease in weight may indicate the nutritive loss . It helps in easy development of nourishment plan.

Psychosocial examination: Psychosocial examination includes individual’s racial, community, status of living, occupation, academic certification level, mental capability. All mentioned psychosocial history help in determination of self care possibility.

Dietary examination: Dietary examination refers dietary intake by an individual. It includes the analysis of salt like sodium and potassium intake. Especially when an infected individual take his/her food outside he/she is at a risk of food poison.

Medical nutrition therapy provision

Professionals who are trained in medical nourishment caring administer nutrition plan. They focus mainly on nourishment and dietetics of an individual. Dietitians are referred as nutritionist. Nutritionist works in collaboration with other disciplinary fields such as clinic, hospitals, extended care facilities, clinical laboratory and home care organizations. It is the responsibility of dietitians to provide healing nourishment therapy.   

Questions:

• How nutrition is related to clinical medicine?
• What is medical nutritional therapy?
• What are the nutritional assessment elements?
• What is the purpose of medical nutrition supplementation?
• What do you mean by healing nourishment therapy?