Hypermetabolism and Nutritional Support in Sepsis

Malabsorption and nutritional support

Nutritional Support in Cancer

• Cancer is a preventable disease; • Environmental factors play a prominent role in increasing cancer risk; • Diet, physical activity and maintenance of a healthy weight can prevent 40% of all cancers; • Fruit, vegetables, and fibre have a protective effect, whereas high-temperature cooked red meat and processed meat increase the risk of developing cancer; • While there is no evidence that inta...

Nutritional Support in Dysphagia

Nutritional support in elderly

Artificial nutrition includes: enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition. Total parenteral nutrition aims at making up for nutritional deficiency caused by both insufficient oral nutrition due to anorexia and obstruction of the gastro-enteric tube or derived from a digestive inefficacy due to a deficiency in the digestive process of assimilation. Enteral nutrition is destined to elderly patie...

Infantile sepsis and its nutritional effects.

There is a coinmon variety of infantile infection which is characterized by successive septic manifestations, and by well-marked disturbance of health and nutrition. The clinical observation of 31 cases of this affection forms the basis of the present communication. They have all been personally observed, and for this reason have been selected from the large number seen at the Babies' Hospital....