Iron and micronutrient gaps
Fatigue, appetite, pallor, diet pattern, lab findings where needed, and supplementation response are tracked.
SKIDS Specialty Clinics Specialty care · SKIDS
10.4
g/dL
Below WHO threshold · the most under-diagnosed problem in Indian pediatrics SKIDS · clinic
The reframe
Nutrition is not a chart of calories. It is growth, attention, immunity, sleep, and family rhythm.
Parents worry about food every day: too little, too much, too selective, too many packaged snacks, not enough protein, low iron, poor growth, constipation, or weight gain.
Pediatric nutrition must be practical. It should connect diet to growth, stool, sleep, attention, fatigue, infection frequency, and family routines without turning every meal into a battle.
The SKIDS Nutrition Clinic follows the child’s body signals and family context, then builds a plan that can survive ordinary life.
The best nutrition plan is clinically sound and possible at home.
What we screen for · what we treat
What the SKIDS Nutrition Clinic brings into view.
Poor growth or poor weight gain
Food intake, stool pattern, illness, sleep, and growth velocity are read together.
Overweight and metabolic risk
BMI trend, family history, sleep, activity, emotional eating, and school routine are addressed without blame.
Selective eating
Texture, sensory preference, constipation, screen meals, family stress, and developmental context are reviewed.
Our protocol
The SKIDS Nutrition Protocol, in four steps.
Diagnostic confirmation
The pediatrician confirms the concern through history, examination, screening results, and the child’s context around appetite, iron, growth, weight, food selectivity, fatigue, gut symptoms, and family routines.
Severity grading
Findings are separated into reassurance, monitor, treat, and refer pathways so families know what matters now.
Therapeutic plan
The plan may include parent guidance, medication, allied support, school recommendations, tests, or specialist referral depending on the child’s need.
Follow-up schedule
Follow-up is scheduled by risk and response, with the same life record carrying every change forward.
Specialty depth
This is not a one-visit opinion. It is a pediatric care continuum.
Screening plans are generic. Specialty clinic care is individualised after assessment. The SKIDS Nutrition Clinic shows the breadth of what can be seen, treated, followed, and escalated under one pediatric home.
4 connected concern areas, one child.
The clinic does not treat one isolated symptom. It connects parent observations, school signals, screening findings, examination, and the child’s growth story.
From finding to treatment to follow-up.
Care may include guidance, medicines, devices, therapy, diagnostics, allied support, school advice, or specialist escalation depending on the child’s need.
Ask the SKIDS clinic manager for the right plan.
The clinic manager explains the continued-care options after assessment, including what is included, what needs referral, and how follow-up is tracked in Companion.
Contact clinic managerThe team
2 people care for your child.
SKIDS Pediatrician
Runs the protocol, examines the child, makes clinical decisions, and keeps the concern connected to the whole-child record.
Pediatric nutritionist
Builds food routines, supplementation plans, growth follow-up, and family-friendly meal guidance with the pediatrician.
What happens, step by step
From screening flag to active care.
A signal is noticed
A parent, teacher, screening day, or clinic visit brings forward appetite, iron, growth, weight, food selectivity, fatigue, gut symptoms, and family routines.
The pediatrician reviews the pattern
History, examination, screening results, growth, sleep, school context, and family concern are read together.
The child is matched to a continued-care plan
Simple concerns stay in primary pediatric care. Persistent, complex, or red-flag findings are escalated early.
The plan begins
The family leaves with clear next steps, home guidance, prescriptions or referrals where needed, and a record in Companion.
Follow-up protects continuity
Review cadence, reminders, outcomes, and school or allied inputs stay in the same life record.
Why a pediatrician
Why a SKIDS pediatrician with this protocol, not a scattered referral path.
Nutrition Clinic concerns often begin as ordinary parent or school observations: appetite, iron, growth, weight, food selectivity, fatigue, gut symptoms, and family routines. A pediatrician is the right first interpreter because the question is not only one organ or one symptom. It is how the child is growing, sleeping, learning, eating, playing, and coping.
SKIDS keeps primary pediatric specialty care close to the child while being clear about escalation. When a specialist is needed, the referral is coordinated with context instead of sending the family away with a fragment.
What the data says
Why this matters.
Parent observations are included in the Nutrition Clinic pathway, not left outside the visit.
SKIDS whole-child care modelTeacher and school-day signals can be brought into the same pediatric record when relevant.
SKIDS school clinic modelScreening, protocol, follow-up, and escalation stay connected under one pediatric home.
SKIDS protocol libraryDifferent from a fragmented referral.
A one-off visit may name the problem. A SKIDS specialty clinic keeps the child inside a care pathway: what was found, what was started, what changed, when to review, and when escalation is needed.
Different from sending the child away too early.
SKIDS gives pediatricians specialty protocols, documentation, devices, allied coordination, and referral logic so more care can remain close to the trusted pediatric home.
Continue Nutrition Clinic care with SKIDS.
Specialty clinic care plans are individualised. Contact the SKIDS clinic manager to understand continued care, inclusions, referrals, and follow-up for this clinic.
A growing school and clinic screening dataset. Bangalore. HSR Layout.