Biennial South African Paediatric Association and South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons Congress

During the Biennial South African Paediatric Association and South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons Congress held in Durban from 1-4 September 2016, the NNIA sponsored the GIT Workshop. The speakers presented on the following topics: 

• Disease related malnutrition (Prof. Ettienne Nel)
• Approach to constipation (Prof. S. Kolacek)
• Approach to the child with abdominal pain (Prof. Jan Taminiau)
• Gut flora and gut immunity (Prof. S Kolacek)
• Appropriate management of GORD in childhood (Prof. Ettienne Nel)
• Eosinophilic diseases of the intestine (Prof. Michael Lentze)
• The approach jaundiced infant (Dr. A. Terblanche)
• Managing portal hypertension (Prof. Ronalda de Lacy)
• Autoimmune hepatitis (Dr. Liz Goddard)
• Nutritional support of chronic liver disease (Dr. R. de Lacy), and
• Nutritional support of CF/Improving the outcome of SAM (Prof Ettienne Nel)