Nutrition Department

The Nutrition Department of Tianjin Children's Hospital was established in August 1951 (originally known as the Nutrition Office, and renamed the Nutrition Department in 1987).

With medical care as the main body, teaching as the foundation, and scientific research as the forefront, the department has gradually formed a relatively complete clinical nutrition system.

The department is divided into two campuses: Machang and Longyan, with a total area of ​​about 2000m 2 .

There are currently 18 nutrition professionals, including 1 department director, 1 deputy chief nutritionist, 4 attending nutrition physicians, 5 nutrition physicians, and 7 nutrition technicians.

Both campuses of the Department of Nutrition have medical areas (nutrition clinics) and nutritional treatment preparation areas (including medical diet preparation rooms and enteral nutrition preparation rooms).

The department is responsible for nutritional consultation, nutritional assessment, nutritional diagnosis, nutritional treatment, nutritional meal preparation, and nutritional treatment and guidance for outpatients in the two campuses.

The department uses professional nutrition software to conduct nutritional evaluation, formulate personalized daily or weekly recipes, and conduct systematic nutritional treatment;

Use measurement tools such as sebum thickness meters and hand grippers for recent nutritional assessment;

Use educational tools such as salt-control spoons, oil-control pots, and quantitative food models to teach therapeutic meals, providing patients with comprehensive, standardized nutritional support and precise nutritional management.

Actively cooperating with clinical clinics, a standardized nutrition management system of "physicians-nurses-nutritionists" has been established to provide patients with high-quality services.

Scientific research: The department has accumulated rich clinical experience in nutritional treatment of pediatric diseases over the years.

1 provincial and ministerial level project;

1 bureau project;

1 provincial and municipal level project;

2 achievement certifications;

1 SCI paper;

More than 20 articles in core journals.

Participated in the compilation of books such as "Practical Manual on Prevention, Treatment and Health Management of Common Diseases in Children", "Nursery Training Tutorial", "Nutritionist Training Tutorial", "Modern Nutritional Therapy" and "Clinical Application Guidelines for Formulas for Special Medical Purposes".

Teaching: The Department of Nutrition is responsible for teaching advanced students and interns. In 1982, the Department of Nutrition began to undertake the teaching internship work of nutrition students of Tianjin Medical College. So far, it has taught more than 30 batches of students (more than 1,000 people in total).

Social publicity services: Strengthen the publicity of nutritional knowledge through various channels.

Such as community lectures, free clinics inside and outside the hospital, entering welfare homes, radio stations, and publishing popular science articles on hospital platforms, health weekly newspapers, and family parenting, etc.

Strengthen academic exchanges: several academic symposiums on pediatric clinical nutrition were held jointly with multiple multidisciplinary hospitals inside and outside the hospital.

Achievements: In 2018, with the support of hospital leaders and the efforts of all staff, the Department of Nutrition won the National Advanced Award for Department Construction.

Nutrition clinic specialized service items:

Through enteral and parenteral nutrition treatment and individualized dietary nutrition treatment for various diseases, patients’ nutritional status is evaluated using anthropometric measurements and biochemical testing, and individualized nutrition treatment plans are determined to improve their nutritional status and cultivate good eating habits.

⑴ Provide targeted nutritional dietary guidance to children of different ages, including scientific feeding of infants and young children, reasonable addition of complementary foods and how to choose baby food, correcting bad eating behaviors, etc.

⑵ Those with nutritional deficiencies (deficiency of calcium, zinc, iron, etc.) and those with partial eclipse, picky eating, anorexia, vitamin D deficiency rickets, iron deficiency anemia, obesity, growth retardation, malnutrition or risk of malnutrition will receive systematic dietary treatment and auxiliary treatment.

⑶Clinical nutrition: nutritional treatment such as diabetes, kidney disease, allergic diseases, lactose intolerance, diarrhea and other digestive system diseases, short bowel syndrome, metabolic diseases, rare diseases, perioperative period, etc.

⑷People who are in a sub-healthy state and hope to prevent diseases through reasonable diet or nutritional supplements.