Experience of nutritional condition correction in children with infantile cerebral palsy: clinical review
Infantile cerebral palsy (ICP) is a group of stable disorders in the motor skills development and maintaining posture, leading to motor defects caused by non-progressive damage and/or developing brain anomaly in fetus or newborn baby. Patients with ICP are at the development risk of nutritional condition disorders, which are detected in average of half of children with this disease. Correct assessment of the nutritional condition with subsequent dietary correction can stabilize the biochemical parameters of macro-and micro-nutrients in blood serum, improve the health of the child by correcting the comorbidity manifestations, improve the rehabilitation measures effectiveness. When compiling a diet for a child with ICP, it is necessary to take into account age-related needs for nutrients and energy, the pathogenesis of the underlying disease and the nature of the comorbidity (constipations, gastrointestinal food allergy, dysphagia, gastroesophageal reflux disease, etc.). This article illustrates the dietary correction experience of nutritional condition in patients with ICP. Due to the presence of nutritional insufficiency and food allergy, including cow’s milk protein, specialized elemental and semi-elemental enteric therapeutic mixtures were used for correction.