Análise de uma estratégia de atenção Nutricional a estudantes com necessidades alimentares específicas

Abstract

School feeding is a right of all students enrolled in public schools in Brazil. This right is assured by Brazilian law, especially at the National Programme for School Meals (PNAE). Furthermore, students with specific dietary needs must be treated with differentiated school meals under the supervision of a professional nutritionist. This study aims to describe situations of specific dietary needs, and present an intervention strategy in nutritional care for students with specific dietary needs of a municipality. It is a documentary survey performed from public data registered by the Department of School Feeding of Rio Brilhante city. The main pathologies associated with specific dietary needs, checked in the bibliographic search, were diabetes mellitus, hypertension, celiac disease, phenylketonuria, lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, allergy to the cow's milk protein, allergy to food additives. Situations of specific dietary needs found according to the survey in Rio Brilhante city were gluten intolerance, celiac disease, lactose intolerance and allergy to cow's milk. The municipality takes actions ranging from the acquisition, which implies inserting gluten free foods at the time of setting the agenda of food genres, developing culinary preparations, training handlers and working on the guidance to teachers and parents. It is possible to say, therefore, that the proposal of nutritional care for people with specific dietary needs to be viable and effective, in the municipality of Rio Brilhante.