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Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related
Care
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The American Dietetic Association
recommends between 3 and 6 medical nutrition visits per year for a
person with Stage 2 HIV/AIDS. So what are the goals they will shoot for?
- Improve nutrition-related immune
function.
- Enhance response to therapy and insure
optimal medication levels.
- Maintain body weight and reduce fatigue.
- Prevent weight loss by fever, oral pain,
infection, nausea and diarrhea.
- Support depleted levels of nutrients,
such as vitamins, linoleic acid, selenium, etc.
- Advise judicious intake of fats as
complications of retroviral therapy include significant elevations of
cholesterol and triglycerides.
- Fats not to exceed 30% of daily
caloric intake
- Saturated fats not to exceed 7% of
fatty acid intake.
- Cholesterol less than 300mg/day
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Lipodystrophy associated with
protease inhibitors.
- Adjust diet regimen to account for renal
and/or hepatic impairment.
- Promptly address nutritional effects of
fatigue, anemia, anorexia, depression and dyspnea
- Be honest about crackpot alternative
therapies, megavitamin and herbal remedies, none of which have been
shown to be of any particular benefit.
Great, so
how do you do this?
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