What is a dietitian?
A dietitian can assess your nutritional status and provide recommendations and education to address any nutrition concerns. A dietitian is an expert in human nutrition and the regulation of diet.
Our Dietitian can assess your child’s growth, medical and feeding history, nutrition and food preferences.
Based on this information we can discuss appropriate nutrition goals together and work collaboratively with you to achieve those goals.
Our Dietitian uses a holistic approach to provide evidence-based nutrition advice that is tailored to your family.
We aim to improve your child’s nutritional status in practical and achievable ways, to help create a positive mealtime experience for the whole family.
Our Dietitian offers a family-centred approach and is experienced working with children who have complex needs, developmental delay, disabilities and chronic diseases.
Our dietitian can help with infants, children and adolescents in the following areas:
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- Feeding difficulties
- Growth concerns
- Oral aversion and limited diets
- Nutrition for children with sensory sensitivities e.g. autism
- Restricted diets and food jagging
- Positive mealtime strategies
- Management of poor growth or failure to thrive in infants
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Gastrointestinal issues e.g. constipation, diarrhoea, reflux, vomiting, irritable bowel syndrome, Coeliac Disease
- Nutritional deficiencies e.g. iron deficiency
- Introducing solids
- Nutrition for children with swallowing difficulties
- Nutrition for loss of appetite (which can commonly occur when taking some medications e.g. ADHD medication)
- ARFID