Syllabus | PAPER-I NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT III | M.Sc. Nutrition & Dietetics | Third Semester

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

DOMAIN

TEACHING HOURS

1. Nutritional Anaemia
2. Erythropoiesis
3. Classifications of Anemias ,   Erythropoiesis and haemoglobin synthesis, nutrients involved in Erythropoiesis
4. Classifications of Anemias and Nutritional Care
5. Normocytic anemia – aplastic anemia
6. Megaloblastic anemia
7. Microcytic anemia
8. Sickle cell anemia and Thalassemia
9. Hemolytic anemia

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1. Food Allergies                                                                                                             
2. Definition, Symptoms and mechanism of food Allergy
3. Diagnosis – Biochemical, immune testing (brief), history and food record, Elimination diets, Food Selection.
4. Food allergy in infancy (milk sensitive enteropathy, colic prevention of food allergy)

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1. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
2. Etiology and Pathogenesis
3. Nutritional Management
4. Respiratory Failure
5. Nutritional Care

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1. Carcinogens in foods
2. Chemoprevention of Cancer: nutrient and non-nutrient dietary components
3. Etiology and Pathogenesis of carcinogenesis
4. Metabolic and Nutritional Alterations in Malignancy
5. Interrelationships of nutritional status and systemic effects of cancer
6. Nutritional impacts of cancer therapy, Types of therapy
7. Nutritional support of the Cancer patient

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1. Burns
2. Sepsis
3. Surgery

Must Know

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1. Effects of diet and nutritional status on drug absorption, disposition   metabolism and action
2. Effects of drugs on food intake, body weight, nutrient requirements and growth.
3. Drug induced maldigestion and malabsorbption
4. Effects of drugs on vitamin and mineral status, requirements and activity, demographics, disease state and risk of drug-nutrient and drug- nutritional status interactions.

Must Know

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