1. Nutritional Intervention – Diet modifications
2. Special feeding methods in nutritional support
3. significance of anti inflammatory foods
4. Nutritional management of food allergies and food intolerances.
5. Diet, nutrient and drug interaction

    

• Basic concept
• Effect of Nutrition on drugs
• Effect of drug on Nutritional status, food intake, digestion, absorption and metabolism of nutrient.
• Drug and drug interaction

Incidence, etiology, metabolic changes, clinical manifestations, complications and         dietary management for the following -   

• Gastro-Intestinal Diseases and Disorders –Oesophagitis, Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disorder (GERD), Hiatus Hernia, Dyspepsia, Gastritis, Diverticular disease, Peptic Ulcer, Malabsorption Syndrome
• Celiac disease, Tropical sprue, Steatorrhoea, Lactose intolerance) Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Short Bowel Syndrome.
• Liver, Gall bladder and Pancreatic diseases

a. Liver Diseases –Liver Cirrhosis, Hepatic Encephalopathy (HE)/ Hepatic Coma,
b. Pancreatic Diseases – Pancreatitis
c. Gall Bladder Diseases – Cholelithiasis, Cholecystitis, Cholecystectomy

• Eating Disorders

Incidence, etiology, metabolic changes, clinical manifestations, complications and         dietary management for the following -

• Cardio vascular disease (CVD) – Dyslipideimia, Atherosclerosis, Hypertension (HT), Angina Pectoris, Myocardial Infarction (MI), Congestive Cardiac failure (CCF), Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) Prevention of CHD.
• Metabolic disorders - Diabetes Mellitus, Gout
• Renal Diseases – Glomerulonephritis (Acute and Chronic), Nephrotic Syndrome,   Nephrolithiasis (Renal calculi), Nephrosclerosis, Renal Failure (Acute and chronic), End Stage Renal Failure (ESRD), Dialysis (Haemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis), Kidney Transplantation.
• Cancer
   

1. Nutrition immunity and infection

 Innate and adoptive immunity, primary and secondary lymphoid organs, cell mediated and humoral immunity, T and B lymphocytes, antibody response, primary and secondary infection, role of nutrition in immune functions, immune aberration – HIV infection and AIDS.  

2. Nutrition and stress

Stress types, body’s response (endocrine and metabolic) to short term and
long term stress. Role of nutrition in stress coping.
Surgery – pre-operative and post-operative nutritional care.
Burns – classification, dietary management and mode of feeding.

Trauma – physiological, metabolic and hormonal response to injury, dietary   
management.

Inborn errors of metabolism

• Disorders of Amino Acid metabolism – Phenylketonuria, hypertyrosinemia, hypervalinemia, hyperhistidinemia, hyperlysinemia, homocystinuria.
• Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism – Galactosemia, Pentosuria.
• Disorders of lipid metabolism – Hyperchylomicronemia, hypercholesterolemia – pure and mixed.

incidence ,etilogy,pathology,clinical menifestations,complications dietary management and counselling in Rheumatoid arthritis,osteoarthritis,osteoporosis.

nutritional care of hospitalized patients-Hospital malnutrition ,screening and nutritional assessment of critically ill patients.