Neurological disorders

Infants and children can suffer from a variety of neurological disorders

Neurological disorders

From recurring headaches to epilepsy, infants and children may sometimes suffer from a neurological disorder. Proper diagnosis, appropriate treatment and lifestyle modifications are important steps to help a child to feel better.

Childhood neurological disorders can be very concerning. A broad category of conditions caused by multiple factors, neurological disorders affect a child’s growing brain. Some examples of more common neurological disorders are persistent headaches or migraines, developmental and motor problems, stroke, Tourette’s syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism. Some of these conditions are caused by genetic factors, others by injury or illness and others have causes that are still unclear.1*

One reason childhood neurological disorders are of such concern is that a child’s nervous system, their brain and spinal cord, is still developing. And the more common disorders affect several hundreds of thousands of children.2 Fortunately, with proper diagnosis and treatment, many of these conditions can be successfully managed so a child can successfully grow to adulthood.

While the diagnosis and treatment will be specific to each condition, one common factor in addressing these and other conditions is proper nutrition. For example, in the case of cerebral palsy, a condition of brain damage that impairs proper motor development, an assessment of the nutrition required and the means of ingestion is important, as normal eating may be difficult.3 At Nestlé Health Science, we are concerned with these and many other childhood conditions, and are actively developing nutritional therapies for the needs of young patients to improve their quality of life while growing up.


1. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/centers_clinics/pediatric-neurology/conditions/index.html. Accessed December 2014.
2. http://www.neurology.org/content/68/5/326; http://members.sirweb.org/members/misc/Hirtz.pdf. Accessed December 2014.
3. http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/medicine/divisions/digestive-health/nutrition-support-team/nutrition-articles/WittenbrookArticle.pdf. Accessed December 2014.

*Listed symptoms and conditions are not all-inclusive, actual patients’ experiences may vary.



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