Nutrition for Paediatric Patients

Supporting Children to Grow & Thrive

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Nutrition for Paediatric Patients

Helping Children Thrive When Nutritional Intake Is Compromised

Paediatric patients’ nutritional needs change with age and clinical status, making tailored nutrition support vital for growth, development and wellbeing.

Elevated Nutritional Risk

Due to increased demands of growth and development, even short periods of inadequate nutritional intake can have significant consequences for a child's health.¹

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Early Screening

Identifying nutritional risk early is the critical first step in preventing deficits and initiating timely, appropriate intervention. ^2,3

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Practical Solutions

ONS and tube feeding offer a way to meet both clinical nutritional targets and the practical realities of a child's situation, including feeding difficulties and food aversions.^3,4

Age-Appropriate Strategies for When Meals Alone Are Not Enough

For children, nutrition is critical for normal growth and development, making it essential to support their nutritional needs at every stage of childhood.

The Frebini® range offers fibre and fibre-free formulations, energy densities of 1.0 and 1.5 kcal/mL, and a variety of flavours, to help patients thrive, whether feeding orally or via enteral tube feeds.

Thanks to this variety, you can offer solutions tailored to your patients’ developmental stage, individual symptoms, and care-giving context. This helps integrate nutrition into routines, and aids adherence, an essential element of any care plan.

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Tailoring Support

Even a short period of reduced nutritional intake can have a long-term impact on developmental trajectories.¹ Therefore, it is important to offer support early and match it to patients’ particular needs.

Care plans should consider^3,4:

Requirements around energy, protein and micronutrients
Developmental phase in terms of feeding skills
Underlying disease or metabolic stress
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Demands of the care environment
Whether enteral feeding should be considered

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Learn More About Malnutrition in Children

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Frebini HCP Brochure

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A Three-Year Old with The Biggest Smile

The complications caused by Leni’s lissencephaly disease impaired her ability to swallow. But Leni and her family saw a huge transformation in her wellbeing after starting tube feeding with a combination of homemade preparations and Frebini Tube Feed.

Frebini® Nutritional Support

Explore the Frebini range for paediatric nutritional support

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Healthcare Professional Resources

Discover our wide range of resources for healthcare professionals

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Fresubin® Tube Feeds

Explore Fresubin's Tube Feed Ranges

Frebini factsheets can be downloaded here.

Frebini ENERGY / ENERGY FIBRE Factsheet

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Frebini ORIGINAL / ORIGINAL FIBRE Factsheet

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Frebini ENERGY / ENERGY FIBRE Drink Factsheet

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*Fresubin products are food for special medical purposes, to be used under medical supervision.

References:

1) Corkins et al. Med Clin N Am 2016;100:1217–1235

2) Hulst JM, Huysentruyt K, Gerasimidis K, Shamir R, Koletzko B, Chourdakis M, Fewtrell M, Joosten KF; Special Interest Group Clinical Malnutrition of ESPGHAN. A Practical Approach to Identifying Pediatric Disease-Associated Undernutrition: A Position Statement from the ESPGHAN Special Interest Group on Clinical Malnutrition. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2022 May 1;74(5):693-705. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000003437. Epub 2022 Mar 3. PMID: 35258497.

3) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Faltering growth: recognition and management of faltering growth in children. NICE guideline. 2017. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng75

4) Braegger C, Decsi T, Dias JA, Hartman C, Kolacek S, Koletzko B, Koletzko S, Mihatsch W, Moreno L, Puntis J, Shamir R, Szajewska H, Turck D, van Goudoever J; ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition:. Practical approach to paediatric enteral nutrition: a comment by the ESPGHAN committee on nutrition. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2010 Jul;51(1):110-22. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e3181d336d2. PMID: 20453670.