Nutrition

The Department of Nutrition of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1990. It primarily serves outpatients and inpatients and, based on the nature of the patient’s disease, disease course, and condition, uses enteral and parenteral nutrition therapy to develop individualized clinical nutrition intervention plans for patients. The three campuses currently have a total of 9 professional staff members, including 1 chief physician, 2 attending physicians, 2 resident physicians, 1 supervising technician, and 3 junior technicians.

As core members of the hospital-wide nutrition support team, the department conducts nutritional risk screening and assessment for inpatients, provides dietary guidance, develops individualized enteral and parenteral nutrition support plans, and cooperates with clinical departments in carrying out various nutritional therapies. The department participates in multiple hospital-wide multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussion groups and develops nutrition plans for patients with difficult and complex conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, kidney disease, and gynecological diseases. The Department of Nutrition provides outpatient services 3 days per week. Based on patients’ different diseases and constitution identification, it develops individualized clinical nutrition intervention plans, uses the characteristics of foods to regulate the body’s metabolism under pathological conditions, and thereby achieves symptom relief, promotes recovery, improves prognosis, and enhances quality of life. The department is responsible for teaching and supervising students majoring in medical nutrition, providing nutrition training for medical and nursing staff, and carrying out other related work. It conducts activities during National Nutrition Week every year and, from time to time, carries out free medical consultations and other nutrition science popularization and public education activities in communities, schools, and other social institutions, with the aim of improving the public’s scientific nutrition literacy.

Technical Advantages

For patients with insufficient oral food intake or who are unable to eat orally, as well as subhealthy populations or those affected by various diseases, the department can develop individualized clinical nutrition plans. By utilizing the characteristics of foods and regulating the body’s metabolism under pathological conditions, it improves the state of malnutrition, relieves symptoms, promotes recovery, and improves patients’ quality of life. We provide nutritional intervention and treatment for the following conditions:

• Nutritional treatment for diabetes and gestational diabetes: guidance on low-GI/GL diets for diabetes, lifestyle and exercise guidance, and more

• Scientific weight management: management for patients with obesity, fat loss, periconceptional nutrition management, treatment of overnutrition, and more; scientific weight gain for patients with malnutrition and underweight body types, and more

• Nutritional treatment for chronic kidney disease: high-quality, low-protein dietary treatment for patients with chronic renal failure and patients undergoing hemodialysis

• Nutritional treatment for patients with gout and hyperuricemia: low-purine dietary treatment, and more

• Nutritional treatment for patients with tumors

• Dietary treatment for cardiovascular diseases: low-salt diets for hypertension, low-fat dietary treatment for hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis, and more

• Nutritional treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: selection of enteral nutrition preparations, enteral nutrition combined with transitional dietary treatment, low-FODMAPS diet therapy, and more

• Specialized nutritional treatment and dietary guidance: nutritional treatment after various surgical procedures; nutritional treatment for patients with anemia; nutritional guidance for patients with liver or kidney disease and other patients with insufficient oral food intake or who are unable to eat orally; dietary guidance for children’s growth and development; specialized dietary guidance for older adults; dietary guidance for menopausal women; dietary guidance for patients with osteoporosis; and more.