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The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report
The number of children on a vegetarian or vegan diet is gradually increasing. If not balanced and adequately supplemented, these dietary regimes can seriously impact the growth of children. Often the pediatrician is not perceived as a figure to rely on in the event of parents’ willingness to follow...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32887223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176380 |
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author | Farella, Ilaria Panza, Raffaella Baldassarre, Maria Elisabetta |
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description | The number of children on a vegetarian or vegan diet is gradually increasing. If not balanced and adequately supplemented, these dietary regimes can seriously impact the growth of children. Often the pediatrician is not perceived as a figure to rely on in the event of parents’ willingness to follow an alternative diet for their child. The feeling of distrust of parents towards the pediatrician can be dangerous for the health of the child. We present a 22-month-old boy with failure to thrive probably induced by an unbalanced vegetarian diet. The acquisition of the anamnestic data concerning the child’s diet was difficult because initially omitted by the parents. The poor compliance and the difficult follow-up highlights the difficulty in establishing a therapeutic alliance between parents who follow alternative regimens and the pediatrician. |
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spelling | pubmed-75046292020-09-26 The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report Farella, Ilaria Panza, Raffaella Baldassarre, Maria Elisabetta Int J Environ Res Public Health Case Report The number of children on a vegetarian or vegan diet is gradually increasing. If not balanced and adequately supplemented, these dietary regimes can seriously impact the growth of children. Often the pediatrician is not perceived as a figure to rely on in the event of parents’ willingness to follow an alternative diet for their child. The feeling of distrust of parents towards the pediatrician can be dangerous for the health of the child. We present a 22-month-old boy with failure to thrive probably induced by an unbalanced vegetarian diet. The acquisition of the anamnestic data concerning the child’s diet was difficult because initially omitted by the parents. The poor compliance and the difficult follow-up highlights the difficulty in establishing a therapeutic alliance between parents who follow alternative regimens and the pediatrician. MDPI 2020-09-02 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7504629/ /pubmed/32887223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176380 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Farella, Ilaria Panza, Raffaella Baldassarre, Maria Elisabetta The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title | The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title_full | The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title_short | The Difficult Alliance between Vegan Parents and Pediatrician: A Case Report |
title_sort | difficult alliance between vegan parents and pediatrician: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32887223 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17176380 |
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