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digestional

  • a word derived from digestion.
    digestion
    noun
    the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.

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Excess Protein in Food.—The digestional disturbances arising from too much protein in the food are as a rule readily overcome in breast-fed infants.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

It must be selected carefully that digestional disturbances may not develop.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

When an article of food does cause digestional disturbances in the baby, it should be carefully omitted from the mother’s diet.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Digestive Disturbances.—It is a well-established fact that artificially fed infants are more subject to disturbances due to diet than breast-fed infants, the digestional disturbances of the latter yielding more readily to treatment.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Consequently, all the care that can be exercised must be resorted to in the feeding of these babies, not only after digestional disturbances arise, but as a means of their prevention.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit