Dietary and Nutritional Therapies to Improve Digestive Disorders

Dear Colleagues,

Digestive disorders generate anorexia and intake restrictions, prolonged fasting periods, malabsorption, and chronic inflammation that releases stress mediators with catabolic activity. They often lead to malnutrition with a major impact on clinical outcomes. The treatment of digestive disorders must consider the need for dietary intervention, directly targeting the pathophysiological mechanisms of the disease or preventing and treating disease-associated malnutrition. In managing digestive disorders, doctors and other health professionals must consider dietary and nutritional intervention at several levels.

Lactose intolerance or avoidance diet is used in eosinophilic esophagitis as a basic disease treatment, such as celiac disease.

It is an adjuvant that reduces symptoms and improves quality of life, as in GERD or IBS.

The prevention and treatment of disease-associated malnutrition, with an important outcome impact, is mandatory in chronic liver or pancreatic disease, IBD, or digestive cancer.

In this Special Issue, we focus on the different dietary and nutritional intervention opportunities in digestive disorders. As clinicians and researchers, you can share your expertise and studies with the readers of this Special Issue. Submissions can include original articles on intervention and epidemiological studies as well as review articles.

We are waiting for your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Jorge Fonseca
Dr. Luísa Glória
Guest Editors

Dr. Maria Leonor Silva
Guest Editor Assistant

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