Total energy expenditure is broken into three: basal metabolic rate (BMR, what is needed to maintain vital functions etc), diet induced...
Diet induced thermogenesis accounts for ~10% of energy requirement in energy requirement calculations.
It is also possible to make one's own feeding solution for enteral feeding, but then one would need to know what has to go in it to fullfill...
Exactly this. Combining what the patient is able to eat themselves with tube feeding is common practice (and then reducing the tube feeding as/if...
The range of feeds are unfortunately limited. For feeds that can be used as the only form of nutrition there are variants that don't increase...
Agreed. Thinking about the belief ME is psychological in nature, the argument about the neurofeedback from the stomach reminds me that for eating...
But the idea about what someone needs can be influenced by beliefs. In this case: do they need psychological support to be able to feed themselves...
I've never seen PEM translated to "Anstrengelsesutløst sykdomsfølelse" before. "Sykdomsfølelse" would translate to "feeling sick", and based on...
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The stretching of the stomach when it fills sets of some neurons that is among the first satiety signals. But this is again a weird argument when...
Risks to sedation and infection considered with nutrition support, but not risk of not feeding? Taking nursing burden into account with nutrition...
See this post, not lot of information on the PEG, PEJ not mentioned: And yes, these options should have been considered.
Not the worst acronym :laugh:
Not keeping track of weight loss is unfortunately common (often blamed on time constraints). Being on an eating disorder ward could also increase...
But even with eating disorders, if someone is close to death from starvation there is force feeding. As you and others have stated already, this...
If anyone has more information on the PEG part, I'd love to hear more specifics. PEG is recommended if nutrition support is believed to be needed...
Except for outright stating that the risk of death outweights the risk of death from aspiration, I'm not sure I see the difference between this...
There is. With partial PN the patient is able to have some food pass through the digestive system, but not enough to meet their nutrient needs. So...
One of Norway's pop-psychologists (Frode Thuen) has given a positive review on the book "Gjør ikke skade" ("Do no harm") by Frøydis Lilledalen...
Asking someone out for a cup of coffee is the strategy of two BPS supporters in Norway when they are criticised, and at least one of them is known...
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