Define Counseling and compliance for celiac disease?
If symptoms do not improve, the child's diet should be reviewed and evaluated. A decrease in diarrhoea, increase in height and weight are some of the signs for improvement of the celiac disease condition. Proper diet counseling and follow up is very important to ensure compliance to the gluten - free diet.
With this we end our study of some common paediatric problems and their nutritional management. Next, we shall move on to geriatric nutrition. But first we would like you to answer the check your progress exercise 1 and assess your understanding of the topic covered so far.