Treatment Guidelines: Toddlers
Toddler Treatment Guidelines
Guidelines for treatment for toddlers between 2 and 3 years of age
Nutrition Management of the Toddler/Young Child
Includes a dietary prescription and sample dietary calculation for a toddler or young child
Resources
A Babysitter's Guide to PKU
Guidelines and helpful hints for babysitting a child with PKU
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
Look-Alike Foods: A solution or a Pandora's box?
Questions to consider when deciding on an appropriate food strategy for your child.
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 Self-Management Timeline
A guideline of suggested tasks for children to adopt as they progress from infancy to adulthood
PKU Food Bull's Eye
A food bull's eye tool, developed by the Cristine M. Trahms Program for Phenylketonuria, 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 "formula battles". National PKU News 1993;5:2:4-5.
Trahms CM. Self-management skills: the key to successful PKU treatment, Part I. National PKU News 1992;3:3:4-5.