Inpatient Services:

• Pediatric Inpatient Dietitians assess patients identified with the following nutritional risk factors:

• Child’s weight for age is below the 5th percentile or over the 95th percentile 
• Recent unintentional weight loss
• Using PN (parental nutrition), tube feedings, special formulas, supplements
• Child is following a special diet (renal, diabetic, cardiac, food allergy restrictions)
• Food aversions, difficulty chewing, eating, or swallowing

• Work with patient's primary physician, as needed, to manage nutritional recommendations and answer nutrition management questions as they arise

 A team of 3 Registered Dietitians (RDs) cover the MUSC pediatric hospital, and provide a nutritional assessment ,calculating nutrition requirements, with interventions and counseling and continue to follow patients during their hospital stay.  After discharge from the hospital, a child may require the services of an RD as an outpatient.

Outpatient Services:

• Conduct nutritional assessment
• Provide medical nutrition therapy recommendations for children with a wide variety of nutritional disorders 
• Obtain a 24 hour recall, food records or other form of dietary records, conduct nutrient analyses and compare intake to estimated needs 
• Provide patient and family education on specialized and therapeutic diets, specialized formula preparation or home nutrition support, as needed 
• Work with patient's primary physician, as needed, to manage nutritional recommendations and answer nutrition management questions as they arise