Title: UNIT 10: PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
Course: Human Nutrition and Dietetics

This unit highlights the importance of clinical nutrition in the healthcare system.  Balanced clinical nutrition helps to deal with ill health, injuries, surgery and for proper recovery. It helps prevent malnutrition, restore body tissue and boosts energy and immunity in the body.

Some of the areas covered in this unit are:

- Principles of nutritional management of common clinical conditions
- protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), diabetes mellitus(DM), hypertension (HTN), obesity, HIV, cancers, sicklers, failure to thrive, fluid therapy etc.

At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

1.            Describe the nutritional principles of the management of common clinical conditions.

TASK 10.2

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After you have watched the video on Fluid therapy and read the article (page 9-12) provided, you are to summarise the different concepts for fluid management cases in preparation for the online discussion forum (this is not for group work, do it individually)

Additional Notes

1. Uganda Nutrition Profile - Guidelines on Maternal Nutrition in Uganda

2. Ministry of Health Uganda - Integrated management of acute Malnutrition Guidelines