A Paediatric Dietitian or Nutritionist helps babies, children and teenagers meet their nutritional needs for healthy growth and development. This includes support for feeding difficulties, restricted diets, ARFID, troubleshooting and managing nutritional deficiencies and medical conditions that affect what a child can eat.

At Nourish with Karina, Karina Savage is a paediatric dietitian with 25 years of experience. She supports families with fussy eating, starting solids, low iron, food allergies, coeliac disease and gut concerns such as constipation, diarrhoea and bloating.

Karina looks beyond individual foods to understand your child’s growth, medical history, appetite, eating patterns and mealtime experiences. In an online consultation, you’ll receive personalised guidance to improve your child's nutrition, gut health, relationship with food and make everyday feeding more manageable.

Fussy eating is a very common challenge in childhood, and often parents feel very lost and powerless with managing picky eaters.

The most important place to start is understanding what makes eating difficult - why your fussy eater eats the way they do. This is crucial, as the dietary approach differs according to the underlying issue.

 A child who avoids mixed textures may need a different approach from a child who grazes throughout the day, experiences constipation or feels anxious around unfamiliar foods.

Paediatric dietitian Karina Savage uses her Feeding Ecosystem Framework™ to explore 3 connected influences: the child, the parent and the feeding environment. This helps identify where changes may be most useful for your family, without blame or pressure.

Support may include making accepted foods more nourishing, adjusting meal and snack routines, adapting family meals and introducing unfamiliar foods in manageable steps. Whether your child prefers plain pasta and mostly "white or beige foods", refuses vegetables or is gradually dropping previously accepted foods, Karina helps you work towards greater variety while protecting their nutritional intake.

Yes. A paediatric dietitian can help assess how food, fluids and eating patterns may contribute to constipation, bloating and tummy discomfort. Ongoing gut symptoms deserve attention, particularly when they affect your child’s appetite, comfort or willingness to eat.

Karina Savage specialises in paediatric gut health and works with Paediatric Gastroenterologists, She provides personalised nutrition support for children with bowel concerns and conditions such as coeliac disease. Her assessment considers gut health history, food and fibre intake and variety, fluid intake, food restrictions, bowel patterns and relevant medical history.

Recommendations are specific to your child based on their issues. Karina works alongside your child’s GP or paediatrician where needed, recognising that some symptoms require medical investigation and treatment. The aim is to support comfortable digestion and adequate nutrition while avoiding unnecessary food restrictions.

Yes. Karina Savage offers online Paediatric Dietitcian consultations for families across Australia and off shore.  This means you can access personalised advice from home. Whether you’re in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth or a regional community, telehealth makes specialist nutrition support more accessible.

Telehealth consultations are still claimable through private health insurance or NDIS.

Online consultations can address concerns such as fussy eating, starting solids, low iron, constipation, food allergies and nutrition challenges associated with autism or ADHD. Karina discusses your child’s eating habits, health history, growth and your main concerns, using relevant results or reports where available.

Together, you’ll identify practical next steps that suit your child’s needs and your family’s routines. Follow-up consultations provide an opportunity to review progress, troubleshoot challenges and adjust the plan as your child grows.