of dietitian? IV.Detailed answers . Explain routine hospital diets in detail . Describe special feeding methods .
Discuss the responsibilities of dietitian . What are the types of enteral and parenteral feeds ? . Explain the application of computers in diet counselling.
UNIT - Therapeutic - - Diet in Fever Any disorder or abnormality of the body or mind that destroys good health is known as disease . Diseases can be categorized into communicable and non-communicable diseases. Communicable diseases are transmitted to other people from an infected person, animal or a source in the environment. Fever is one of the common symptoms for infectious diseases.
Diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes mellitus that are not transmitted between people are called Non- Communicable diseases. . Communicable and Non- Communicable Diseases The term “ disease ” refers to a disturbance in the normal functioning of the body. Diseases may be broadly classified as Communicable and Non-Communicable.
Communicable diseases are diseases that are transmitted from an infected person, animal or a source in the environment to a healthy person. Communicable diseases are caused by infectious agents. Therefore these diseases are also called as Infectious diseases . Some examples of the communicable disease include Influenza, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C, Measles etc.
Non - communicable diseases are the diseases that are not caused by infectious agents. Examples for non-communicable diseases include Heart disease, Cancer, Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus. World Health Organization revises the classification of diseases periodically. WHO has recently released the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD- ) at Geneva in .
ICD- documents the diagnoses, diseases, signs and symptoms and social circumstances of each disease. This chapter will enable students To learn the different types of fever To learn and understand the causes and symptoms of fever To learn the dietary management in fever. OBJECTIVES