Nutrition Overview
General Nutrition at UAB is designed to fully evaluate and treat patients at risk for a variety of nutritional deficiencies. Our physicians use a comprehensive diagnostic approach to provide effective treatments and improve nutritional status.
Conditions Treated
Some conditions treated by UAB General Nutrition include:
- Abnormal Weight Loss
- Malnutrition
- Vitamin Deficiencies
- Mineral Deficiencies
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Malabsorption
- Post Bariatric Surgery Nutritional Deficiencies
Services Provided
Some services provided by UAB General Nutrition include:
- Comprehensive medical care
- Physical evaluation and blood or other specimen testing
- Use of medicine and supplements to treat vitamin and/or mineral deficiencies
- Managing home Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) use
- Diet counseling with certified dieticians
- Managing nutrition through feeding tubes
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