Gastrointestinal System - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Nutrition Care Process
Last Updated: 2023-01-16
Target Group: All Adults, All children(0-12 yr.), Youth(13-17 yr.)
Nutrition Intervention
Nutrition Prescription
Examples
Recommend:
- Modified Diet
- Protein intake (e.g. 1.0 g protein/kg body weight/day remission; 1.2 to 1.5 g protein/kg body weight/day active IBD)
- Carbohydrate intake (i.e. sucrose)
- Fibre level (not low or high for Crohn’s disease)
- Vitamins/minerals (e.g. vitamins D and B12, calcium and zinc; folate if taking sulfasalazine or methotrexate)
- Complementary/alternative medicine
- Nutrition-related complementary/alternative medicine use (e.g. prebiotics, probiotics,