Nutrition and Dietetics
8 Doctors
| Day | Timings | HOD / Unit Chief & Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Monday to Saturday | 9.00am to 4.00pm | Mrs. Prithvi P, Dietician Ms. Sahana M, Dietician Mrs. Amritha Prakash, Dietician Ms. Meghana K N, Dietician Mrs. Darshini K K, Dietician Ms. Shreyaswini R, Trainee Dietician |
* Sunday’s /Govt/Institutional Holidays between 9:00am to 1:00pm
Dept. of Nutrition and Dietetics plays an important role to make sure that nutritional care is an integral component of patient care. Nutritional status will be assessed, counselled regarding diets and educational leaflets are given according to their disease conditions for referred OPD and In Patients from various departments like OBG, Paediatrics, cardiology, medicine, surgery etc.
Our Dept. was started as a Diabetic Care Centre in the year 1991. In the year 2014 we were formally established as Department of Nutrition & Dietetics and started with In-patient food service for all patients catering from the hospital. We were team of two dieticians and today the department is full-fledged with 9 dieticians. We work in shift duties from morning 7am to 7 pm to monitor In-patient food service.
In-patients nutritional status is being maintained throughout their stay in hospital by assessing, developing, evaluating, implementing diet plan and providing hygienically prepared, adequate, timely, appropriate diets like normal diet, therapeutic diet, patients on Ryles tube and PEG feed to all in-patients based on their medical requirements to maintain nutritional status and educating them along with their family regarding nutritional care.
We have extended service for BELAKU CLINIC (where we give nutritional advice to the lactating mother and weaning infants), and for geriatric population in GERITARIC CLINIC, for all patients who ever comes to MHC.
The dieticians are also involved in training interns from JSS university, handling classes for inter disciplinary departments (Integrated community medicine students, MBA students, nursing and food handlers) and attending various camps organised by the hospital.
OPD
- Customised diet counselling and educational leaflets for patients and their family
- Diabetes education & care
- Use of audio-visual aids
- Review and follow-up
- Nutritional assessment
IPD
- Normal diet and customized therapeutic food service for all patients
- Diet counselling, nutritional assessment and educational leaflets for referred patients and their family
- Medical nutrition therapy
- Antenatal and postnatal nutritional counselling
Procedure done
Capillary blood glucose test
Special Clinics
Diet counselling for patients at
- Special clinic
- Master Health Check
- Geriatric clinic
Critical Care
- Nutritional assessment
- Therapeutic diets
- Hospital blenderised RT feeds and PEG / PEJ feeds
- Parenteral nutrition
Extension Activities
- Lectures on nutritional education among the masses
- Diabetes Camp
- Cardiac Camp
- Geriatric Camp
- Old Age Home
- Orphanages
- In-house or outward public talks
- Nutrition Week
- World Health Day
- World Diabetes Day
Others
- Internship programme for MSc. students
- Dissertation and projects for PG students
- Integrated teaching programme for VII term community medicine students
- Guiding the MBA Hospital Administration students regarding food service management
| Sr .No | Name of the Equipment |
|---|---|
| 01 | Capillary Blood Glucometer |
- Poster presentation at Mid-term Conference on Geriatric Medicine at Vijayapura, Karnataka entitled “Evaluation of dietary intake and serum levels of Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) in elderly subjects on Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) therapy”: a pilot study.
- Poster presentation at Mid-term Conference on Geriatric Medicine at Vijayapura, Karnataka entitled “a pilot study of nutritional status among rural and urban elderly population in Mysore district”.
- Cross sectional study on oral nutritional supplementation in picky eating children in collaboration with Dept. of Paediatrics sponsored by Abbott.
- Won the Runner Up title at Inter-hospital Diabetes Quiz Competition as a part of World Diabetes Day held by Columbia Asia Hospital Mysore in collaboration with Indian Dietetic Association (IDA) and Micro Labs.
- Oral presentation on Geriatric Medicine entitled “Effect of Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) therapy on serum levels of cyanocobalamine (vitamin B12) in elderly subjects”: a pilot study at KAPICON-2017, Mysore, Karnataka.
