Abstract
Diet and nutrition problems are extremely common in patients with IBD – Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC). The UK IBD Standards (NICE 2015) recommend that in order to promote patient centred care all patients with IBD should have access to a dietitian and nutritional resources. However, many patients do not need the specialist services of a dietitian, but there is a need to improve awareness of the importance of good nutritional intake and to enable early interventions that can be delivered by other health professionals. Patient self-management should also be supported. Improving knowledge on diet and IBD to ensure nutritional adequacy and preventing nutritional depletion, managing food intolerances, symptom control, are just some aims of nutritional care.
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