The most important component of the treatment of PKU is diet. What should it be? This article provides sample menus for children with phenylketonuria.
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Food for thought
Phenylketonuria is among the hereditarydiseases in which nutritional therapy is the only treatment option. According to foreign authors, 60% of patients - idiots, 30% - weak-minded, and only 10% of patients have a slight degree of mental retardation (dementia). Spontaneous improvement of mental functions has never been observed with phenylketonuria, because as important as the disease can be used to identify and assign the appropriate power supply. Translation of the child on a special diet at the early detection of disease ensures the normal psychological development.

Menu for children with phenylketonuria, depending on age
Sample one-day menu for children with phenylketonuria in age from 1 year to 1.5 years (in grams):
- Breakfast: porridge from sago (mashed) - 150 (output of ready meals), apple puree - 50, sweet tea - 150.
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Lunch: pickle with protein-free grains (grated) - 150, vegetable puree - 150, apricot juice - 150, bread from corn starch - 20, butter - 10.
- Afternoon snack: fruit puree with sugar - 150.
- Dinner: Beet Caviar with apples - 150, cherry mousse - 50, sweet tea - 150.
Sample menu for children suffering from phenylketonuria, aged 1.5 to 3 years (in grams):
- 6.00 am: juice - 100.
- Breakfast: braised carrots - 150, prune or apple juice - 50, sweet tea - 150.
- Lunch: soup vegetarian (grated) - 150, sago porridge - 150, cranberry jelly - 150, protein-free bread - 50.
- Afternoon snack: fruit - 200, sugar - 15.
- Dinner: cabbage stew - 150 Cherry juice - 150.
Sample menu for phenylketonuria patients between the ages of 3 to 5 years (in grams):
- Breakfast: mashed potatoes with cucumber - 170 bread made of corn starch - 20, sweet tea - 180.
- Lunch: soup vegetarian - 150, sago porridge - 150, cranberry jelly - 150, grain corn - 20.
- Afternoon snack: fruit - 200, sugar - 20.
- Dinner: salad - 200, sweet tea - 150, grain corn - 20.
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Breakfast: vegetable salad - 200, prune juice - 100, sweet tea - 150. Lunch: beetroot - 200, sago pudding - 200, grape juice - 150, Cornbread - 50.
- Afternoon snack: fruit - 200, sugar - 20.
- Dinner: stewed vegetables - 200, cranberry jelly - 150.
Treatment results depend directly onthe age at which treatment is started the special diet. The earlier vveoditsya health food, the blshe chance of a full psychological development of the child. At a later start of clinical nutrition is only possible improvement.