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Child Treatment Protocol: age 3-8 years
Describes the protocol for treatment for children between 3 and 8 years of age, with continued emphasis on increasing self-management skills.

 

Resources

Games That Teach: Learning by Doing for Preschoolers with PKU.
A booklet of activities for children, providing opportunities to learn about appropriate food choices for PKU.

Making the Change: from High Phe to Low Phe. Fink KJ, Trahms CM. University of Washington PKU Clinic, 1993.
A booklet that describes how to change recipes to fit into a low-phe food pattern.

Monitoring Blood Phenylalanine Levels at Home.
A guide for collecting Guthrie filter paper blood samples at home.

PKU for Children: Learning to Measure.
A guide to help school-age children become more responsible for their PKU diet management.

PKU Self-Management Timeline.
A guideline of suggested tasks for children to adopt as they progress from infancy to adulthood.

PKU Food Target.
A food target tool, developed by the University of Washington PKU Clinic, to help with food choices for PKU diet management.

Padgett D. Tips for dealing with blood draws at different ages. National PKU News 1991;3:1:4-5.

Sulzbacher S. Living with PKU: dealing with food stealing and teasing.
National PKU News 1994;5:3:4-5.

Trahms C.M. Self-management skills: the key to successful PKU treatment, Part II.
National PKU News 1992;4:1:4-5.

Trahms C.M. Self-management skills: the key to successful PKU treatment, Part III.
National PKU News 1992;4:2:4-5.

Schuett VE, Taylor ME. You and PKU, 2nd edition. National PKU News, 1998.
A book for children 3 to 8 years of age. Available from the National PKU News website, under "Diet-Related Information."

 

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