[Nutrition of a diseased child].

The objective of nutritional therapy of a child patient is to secure the child's normal growth and development. In general, it is possible to achieve the goals by using enteral nutrition. Brief parenteral nutrition is often necessary, for example after surgical operations. Short-bowel syndrome is one of the diseases requiring prolonged parenteral nutrition and presenting exceptionally strong challenges for nutritional therapy. The planning and responsibility for implementation of nutritional therapy of a severely diseased child belong to specialized care. The nutrition team comprises a nutritional therapist, a pediatric nurse and a pediatrician specialized in nutrition.