I have a great deal of sympathy with Des's missive on sip feeds. I have experience of them being suggested in the most inappropriate settings. Our prescribing of sip feeds had increased by 135% until till we acted on needless prescribing of some very expensive feeds in situations when liquidised food sufficed just as well, or better.
The other rather irritating problems is that patients with gross obesity seem to have such a low priority for dietary advice, and that the advice given seems ineffective - far less so than weightwatchers and the like.
High sugar foods are leading to two thirds of the patients coming to see me being overweight or obese. That is where our energy should be directed...pardon the pun!
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Re: Bad medicine: medical nutrition
I have a great deal of sympathy with Des's missive on sip feeds. I have experience of them being suggested in the most inappropriate settings. Our prescribing of sip feeds had increased by 135% until till we acted on needless prescribing of some very expensive feeds in situations when liquidised food sufficed just as well, or better.
The other rather irritating problems is that patients with gross obesity seem to have such a low priority for dietary advice, and that the advice given seems ineffective - far less so than weightwatchers and the like.
High sugar foods are leading to two thirds of the patients coming to see me being overweight or obese. That is where our energy should be directed...pardon the pun!
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