Dietetics
Personalized attention to diet & well-being
The Dietetics department service in Amina Hospital is available for all inpatients and outpatients during their treatment through personalized attention to our patients and families with regards to their diet and well-being in a more professional way.
Our experienced dietitians apply robust scientific knowledge about food and nutrition to promote optimal health outcomes to individuals, groups and communities in both states of health and disease. Services we offered includes: To promote the optimal nutritional status of patients through medical nutrition therapy, To promoting health care education through counseling and seminars, To preparing and serve attractive and satisfying meals under high standards.
Our services & Specialties support for patients:
- Nutrition assessment/healthy eating.
- Nutrition support/enteral feeding.
- Diabetes and Hypertension
- Diets for renal disease
- Suitable diets for various gastrointestinal disorders.
- Weight and Lipid management
- Food allergy/intolerance
- Metabolic diseases which require dietary manipulation.
- Diet for nutritional deficiencies for vitamins and minerals
- Diets for neurological diseases e.g. stroke
- Diet and arthritis & Diet and Cancer
- Any others which require nutritional counseling.
- Pregnancy, Lactating mothers
- Pediatric counseling for infants, school going toddlers, adolescents
- Disorders of liver, pancreas, and gallbladder
- Eating disorders
- Pre/post-operation diet as per doctor's advice
- Diets for specific patient groups (elderly, children, pregnant women)
Diet Counseling - Inpatients
- Advice on dietary instructions to be followed.
- Walk in or referrals.
- Physician - Dietician - Patient team approach.
- Diet counseling is done to the patients according to their physical condition or on the advice of the treating consultant.
- Printed diet chart & instructions to the patients after explaining about their diets.
Diet Counseling - Outpatients
- Daily visit by dietician.
- Diet planning of meals according to therapeutic needs.
- Patient and family education.
- Nutritional assessment at the time of admission & daily assessment thereafter.
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