- Auscultate bowel sounds
- Stop the feeding immediately and check tube placement
- Increase oxygen flow
- Administer a bronchodilator
Category: Applied Nutrition
- High protein
- Low fat
- NPO (Nothing by mouth)
- High carbohydrate
- Promote weight gain and preserve lean body mass
- Restrict caloric intake
- Focus only on vitamin supplementation
- Encourage a low-protein diet
- 2-3 months
- 4-6 months
- 8-10 months
- 12 months
- Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin E
- Vitamin C
- Offer frequent sips of water
- Encourage large meals when alert
- Implement enteral tube feedings
- Provide only intravenous fluids
- Red meat
- Spinach
- Sardines with bones
- Potatoes
- Saturated fats
- Trans fats
- Monounsaturated fats (e.g., olive oil)
- Cholesterol
- A regular oral diet
- High-fiber diet
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Low-fat diet
- Increased metabolic rate
- Enhanced sense of taste and smell
- Social isolation and difficulty preparing meals
- Improved dental health
- Flush the line with saline
- Obtain blood cultures and notify the physician
- Increase the TPN rate
- Administer an antipyretic
- Flush the tube with water and wait for a new bag
- Disconnect the tubing and allow the feeding to stop
- Add a new bag of formula and continue the infusion
- Call the physician for an order to discontinue
- Skim milk
- Organ meats (e.g., liver)
- Cherries
- Whole grain bread
- Eat a large meal before bed
- Avoid all carbohydrates
- Eat small, frequent, dry, bland meals
- Drink large amounts of fluids with meals
- Vitamin C and Vitamin K
- Thiamine and Riboflavin
- Folic acid and Vitamin B12
- Niacin and Biotin
- Skip their insulin dose for the day
- Carry a source of rapidly absorbed carbohydrates
- Eat a large meal before walking
- Avoid physical activity
