CLINICAL NUTRITION AND DIETITICS I

Paper Code: 
CND 231
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
Objectives:
This course shall enable the students -
To acquire knowledge regarding effect of various diseases on nutritional status 
To gain knowledge in diet counseling and educating patients

Course outcomes

Learning and Teaching Strategies

Assessment Strategies

CO11: Describe the importance of nutritional care process of patients

CO12: Identify causative factors and metabolic changes in various diseases/disorders and the associated principles of medical nutrition therapy.

CO13: Gain Knowledge about the importance of Diet counseling

 

Approach in teaching:

Lecture method,Power point presentation  Discussions,Tutorials

Learning activities for the students: Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 
9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
Dietary Counseling  
Special feeding methods (enteral, parentral)feeding the patientsand psychology of feeding.
Classification,metabolism and diet in fevers (acute&chronic).
9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
Incidence, etiology, pathology and metabolic aberrations, clinical manifestations, complications and dietary management and counseling for the following diseases-
GIT Diseases –  peptic ulcer, ulcerative Colitis, Malabsorption Syndrome – Carbohydrate and Fat intolerance – Sprue, Celiac disease         
Liver disease –Hepatitis, Cirrhosis                                                    
Diseases of Pancreas and Gall bladder 
9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Incidence, etiology, pathology and metabolic aberrations, clinical manifestations, complications and dietary management and counseling for Heart diseases-     
Cardiovascular diseases – Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Coronary Heart diseases   
9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Incidence, etiology, pathology and metabolic aberrations, clinical manifestations, complications and dietary management and counseling for Diabetes-
Diabetes mellitus (Juvenile and adult onset types), Type of insulin and their action, Oral hypoglycemic drugs   
9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
  
Incidence, etiology, pathology and metabolic aberrations, clinical manifestations, complications and dietary management and counseling for Renal diseases-                
Renal diseases – Glomerulonepheritis, Nephrotic Syndrome
Academic Year: