A low phenylalanine diet should be instituted before the end of the first month of life to ensure normal intellectual development. Guidance recommend that a low phenylalanine diet should be continued throughout adult life (1).
The diet for PKU can be very complicated to follow and is often considered to be unpalatable
NICE have stated (4):
Notes (5,6):
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