Nutrition & Dietetics
Overview
Overview
At Gleneagles Hospital, our nutrition and dietetic services provide nutritional care and counselling to enhance your health and recovery from diseases.
Our experienced dietitians are trained in the science of food and nutrition and their impact on human health. We provide evidence-based recommendations on nutritional care for patients who require therapeutic or special dietary regimens.
Nutrition and dietetics services at Gleneagles Hospital
Nutritionists and dietitians at Gleneagles Hospital provide both outpatient and inpatient dietetic services, including:
- Nutrition assessment
- Nutrition support care planning for patients who require an alternative mode of receiving nutrition, such as tube feeding and parenteral nutrition, and for dietary optimisation
- Individualised nutrition education and counselling to patients and caregivers on therapeutic diets
Other nutrition programmes are also available, such as:
- Chronic disease management – diabetes (for corporate clients)
- Weight management
- Cardiac rehabilitation nutrition
- Feeding clinic
- Complementary feeding workshop for parents with weaning babies aged 6 months and above
Medical conditions targeted by our services
Nutrition and dietetics services can benefit caregivers or patients with health conditions including:
- Cancer
- Diabetes mellitus, including prediabetes, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes
- Eating disorders
- Faltering growth or poor weight gain (for infants and children)
- Fussy eating or poor feeding (for infants and children)
- Food allergies
- Gastrointestinal disorders, such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease
- Gout
- Heart disease and hypertension
- Kidney diseases, including chronic kidney disease and kidney failure requiring dialysis
- Malnutrition
- Obesity, including weight management and bariatric nutrition
- Osteoporosis
- Organ or tissue transplant (e.g. liver, kidney and haematopoietic stem cells)
This is not a complete list of all the conditions that we recognise and treat. The information is designed for educational reference only and should not be seen as medical advice.
Making an appointment with our dietitians or nutritionists
Our nutritionists and dietitians offer both face-to-face consultations and teleconsultations.
If you have a medical condition or are on long-term medication, you may require a referral letter from your doctor.
You can also call us directly (without a referral letter) to schedule an appointment.
