Occupational therapy in a child hospitalized with severe malnutrition and neuro psychomotor development delay: case report

Abstract

Malnutrition, if not diagnosed and treated in children undergoing development, can cause multiple symptoms and irreversible damage to the neuro psychomotor development. Children Occupational therapy presents ample performance in children with delayed development resulting from different causes including malnutrition. The multidisciplinary team, in the context of the pediatric hospitalization, favors the holistic understanding of the treatment process and works as an important instrument to approach the patient and his family. This study describes the role of occupational therapy as the element able to potentiate the neuro psychomotor development process, associated with the multidisciplinary approach of a child with severe malnutrition in the pediatric ward of a urgency and emergency public children’s hospital.