South Tyneside Paediatric Dietitians
Paediatric dietitians help babies, children and young people to eat and drink well.
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Overview
Paediatric dietitians help babies, children and young people to eat and drink well.
The team includes dietitians, dietetic support workers and clerical staff who aim to offer effective dietetic treatment for people with nutrition related diseases.
Support available
The team work with other professionals to sort any nutritional issues identified from patients.
If patients attend special schools in South Tyneside or Sunderland, the paediatric dietitians are in regular contact with staff to provide feeding plans.
They also arrange the delivery of feed or equipment for tube feeding.
If children have difficulty feeding, the team hold monthly feeding clinics.
The team
- work closely with families to order feed and equipment
- may organise pump feeding training for children and families
- offer regular telephone appointments or additional outpatient appointments, to support children with meeting their nutritional needs, their growth and development.
Who can access the service
This service is for children aged 0 to 18 year who live in South Tyneside.
Children must have specific dietary needs, such as:
- tube feeding
- failure to thrive
- allergies
- diabetes
- weight issues
- fussy eating
- nutritional problems
How to access the service
Referral to the team can be made by health professionals
After a referral, the child will be sent an outpatient appointment for general clinic, or will be seen in the specialist multi-disciplinary team clinics.
South Tyneside Hospital does not have a paediatric inpatient ward, but children who need a referral to the dietitian will be seen in our outpatient clinic if they are seen:
- in the nurse-led urgent care centre
- by the paediatrician in the outpatient clinic