Peculiarities of dietetic therapy in infants' hereditary diseases

Possibilities for using dietetic therapy in some hereditary metabolic disorders in infants are explored. The main requirement in diets for such patients is restriction or exclusion of products containing substances that cause metabolic blocking. Specific disorders and treatments are named. These include: restriction of phenylalanine in certain amino acid metabolism disorders; restriction of histidine in histidinemic patients; exclusion of methionine in homocystinuria; and, restriction of certain sugars for infants having carbohydrate metabolism disorders.