Determine Balanced Diet For Celiac Disease?
Energy: initially the children are seen to be malnourished, thus 100-120 Kcal/kg body weight/day with gradual increase to 150 Kcal/kg body weight / day to be given younger children can be given frequent feeding - upto 6-8 feeds in a day.
Proteins: should be provided upto 15en% (percent of energy). The intake can be increased from 0.5 to g/kg body weight/day.
Fat: intake of fat can be from 25 to 50en% (i.e. 25-50 percentage of energy from fat of the total calories).
Micronutrients: supplementation of various micronutrients is advised for celiac disease. These include vitamin A, folic acid, copper, calcium potassium and zinc.