South Tyneside Paediatric Dietitians
Paediatric dietitians help babies, children and young people to eat and drink well.
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Overview
The Nutrition and Dietetic service provides intervention for children and their families or carers for any diet related or nutritional issues.
The paediatric team is based on both hospital sites and is part of a wider dietetic service.
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:
- allergies / food intolerance
- behavioural eating problems
- coeliac disease
- enteral feeding
- faltering growth
- IBS
- iron deficiency anaemia
Other medical conditions listed here may still require support from dietitians.
Exclusions:
- children with cystic fibrosis will be seen by the dietitians at the RVI
- children with diabetes will be seen in the Sunderland MDT paediatric diabetes clinic
- young people with diabetes will be seen in the Sunderland MDT diabetes transition clinic from 17 to 18 years and diabetes transfer clinic with the adult DM's team from 18 to 19 years and then transferred to adult services
- children with familial hyperlipidaemia will be seen in the consultant-led lipid clinic (unless can be seen in paediatric general clinic)
- children with diagnosed eating disorders will be seen by dietitians in children's eating disorder service (CYPS - CEDS)
- children with metabolic disorders will be seen by the dietitians in the metabolic service at RVI
- children with oncology diagnoses will be seen by the dietitian's at RVI
- children with renal failure will be seen by the dietitian's at RVI
How to access the service
A general practitioner can make a referral for the service via NHS e-Referral.
There is also a referral form available.