Feeding sick:
Sometimes we find that the disease causes certain changes that complicate our ability to supply, at a time, which interestingly, our need for nutrients usually higher. Maintain optimal nutritional status in any individual patient should be a priority, to achieve a favorable evolution of their disease, and thus improving their quality of life.
present different solutions commonly utilized in order to try to get your diet promotes a positive evolution of the disease can be made
variations in diet , such as:
- Complete nutritional food supplements.
- Modifications in the selection and quantity of food.
- Changes in the presentation of food (food crushing or use of thickeners).
- Changing times.
artificial nutrition: usually done in the first instance in the hospital, but can be carried out in the patient's home as safely and effectively than in the hospital. This, no doubt, we will reduce hospital stays:
- Nutrition Enteral: Using probes either through the nose or directly into the stomach. These patients maintain a normal function of the gastrointestinal tract, but is unable to feed adequately by mouth.
- Parenteral Nutrition: Using catheters placed in a vein, through which, moisturize and nourish the sick. These patients do not maintain a normal function of the digestive tract.
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