Supplements instead of full nutrition: the child was in the hospital after consulting a nutritionist

Nutritionists, nutritionists, and other nutrition consultants ask for supplements. In this case, one pill is not enough. According to their recommendations, dietary supplements drink in handfuls. How not to believe the advice of a specialist? However, the effect may be reversed. You will have to pay not only thousands of rubles, but also health.

Olga turned to a publicized nutritionist after the child was hospitalized in a weakened condition. A 5-year-old son had a complication after suffering rotavirus. The nutriciologist remotely took to correct the situation. She asked me to trust the doctors less.

The competence of a nutritionist is to teach you to understand food, prevent excess weight, correct the diet. Therefore, we do not need medical education to carry out such activities. But the girl obviously took on more.

“It is urgent to take dietary supplements, to restore all deficits. You made a baby like that. Don't you understand? It's urgent. Buy it right now, I'll drop it off on Telegram. 19 names, the expert assured.

The woman, trying to help her son, followed all the recommendations of the nutritionist for a month. Soon the boy got even worse. One day I had to call an ambulance. The child was taken to an infectious disease hospital.

Alina Savenko, an infectious disease doctor at the Minsk City Children’s Infectious Clinical Hospital: He was very weak, he couldn’t even squeeze my hand hard. He was in contact, was conscious, but boring, capricious, it was clear that he was ill. And here he had no infection. That is, it was clear that the child simply did not receive the necessary substances through the mouth. Something I didn't drink, something I didn't eat. He had very little food, there were a lot of restrictions. And gluten, and milk, all the sweets to choose. Children should eat sweets. We all need glucose.

But even when the child was in the hospital, the nutritionist did not give up. According to her mother and doctor, the woman tried to persuade the woman to ignore the official treatment and continue the diet with the use of dietary supplements.

Such pseudo-specialists abound, especially online. On the one hand, they promote the fashion for a healthy lifestyle. On the other hand, they do everything to undermine the authority of doctors.

Belarusian doctors call on lawmakers to restore order in this area. The Russian experience is to help. There, if you want to be a nutritionist, present a diploma of medical education, preferably higher.