Maggie is an 83 year old female with osteoporosis and high blood presure. She is housebound and lives on her own. Maggie's dietary intake was poor, so she was prescribed a powder-based oral nutritional supplement (ONS) twice daily. 

The FreeGo Enteral Feeding Pump is simple to set up and use. By watching the series of training videos that follow, you will learn how to set up the pump, you’ll see a full explanation of all the controls, how to load and prime the feed, general care and maintenance as well as a sequence on trouble shooting.

This article provides an overview of the management strategies and interventions that can help to maintain muscle mass.

Abbott’s nutrition business in the UK works in partnership with Vitaflo International Ltd. to provide selected products for the management of disease-related malnutrition.

I-CARE checklist is a useful, practical tool to help people spot the signs and symptoms of malnutrition in their older relatives and friends. I-CARE may help provide an early warning sign which enables individuals to take prompt action and speak to their doctor. 

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A group of specialist dietitians with extensive experience of enteral tube feeding came together to discuss some of these key issues and to develop a bolus feeding decision aid to help in the day-to-day management of these patients. The aid is designed to provide practical, day-to-day guidance for dietitians and other healthcare professionals and to be used as training material for more experienced dietitians to share with dietitians new to bolus feeding modalities.

Arnold is an 82 year old male patient with a ruptured oesphagus and dysphagia. He is nil by mouth and reliant on tube fedding via a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube with a jejunal extension (PEG-J).  His regular prescription for medication includes Ranitidine, Domperodone, Citalopram, Hyoscine patches, Carbocisteine, Lansoprazole, Zopiclone and Cyclizine. He lives at home and was experiencing loose stools up to 5 times a day with an urgency to pass stools. 

John is an 80 year old gentleman who was admitte to hospital for an elective mitral valve repair (MVR) and quadruple coronary bypass graft (CABG). On extubation in the Intensive Care unit (ICU) he developed hypoxia due to collapse of the left lower lobe of his lung. He has a flexiseal in situ to manage severe diarrhoea and was fed a high energy whole proteun fibre feed continuously via a nasogastric tube. 

Phil is a 64 year old male undergoing palliative chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer and had a biliary stent in situ. He was consuming all of his meals but required additional supplementation to meet his nutritional requirements. Whole protein oral nutritional supplements (ONS) were not tolerated as they exacerbated his diarrhoea.

Doreen, a retired mother of two, suffered a serious fall while she was out shopping, which led to her having to spend eight weeks in hospital, recovering from a fractured neck of femur.

Muscle loss is a common sign of frailty and almost a third of the UK adult population believe becoming thin and frail is an unavoidable part of growing old. As a result, there is a fear of illness and dependence.¹

An expert group of healthcare professionals has developed a practical guide for nutrition support and the use of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) in patients with severe chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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