5 Nutrition Flashcards
Sip feeds
Oral supplementary feeding
Medicine causing bad taste
ACEi and antibiotics
High risk waist
Men 94-102
Women 80-88cm
Hours of excercise per week?
2.5
Advice for fatties
Signposting to sensible group - weight watchers
5a day
Reduce alcohol, fat, sugar
Diabetic chocolate?
No.
Replaced sugar with fat. You are at increased risk of heart attack anyway
Orlistat should only be given if they tried a healthy lifestyle for how long
Three months
Useful behaviours change?
Diet diary
Malnutrition long term/short term
Long term PEG (if can still us GI)
short term TPN via nasogastric ?
Only use parenteral if…
Can’t use gut (surgery)
High calorie requirement (burns)
Why are people nil by mouth pre op?
To prevent aspiration
Parkinson’s disease and malnutrition?
Hard to feed and have higher calorie intake
Re feeding syndrome
Potentially fatal shift in fluids and electrolytes that may occur in malnourished people receiving artificial feeding
Fat people in surgery
High risk of anesthetic with, infection, pe, VTE, harder to maintain airways open
Drugs that cause weight gain
Oral hypoglycemics OC Anticonvulsant/depressant/antipsychotics Beta blockers Corticosterods
Max healthy weight loss
0.5-1kg per week
