Modified Diets
This diet consists of foods that are clear and liquid at room or body temperature.
Examples: popsicles, plain gelatin, ice chips, and apple or grape juices.
What is a clear liquid diet?
The feeding tube is passed through the nose to the stomach.
What is a nasogastric feeding tube route?
Consumed orally as tablets, liquids, capsules, extracts, powders, concentrates, gel caps, liquids, and powders.
Considered foods NOT drugs.
What are dietary supplements?
Involves the provision of energy and nutrients intravenously.
What is parenteral nutrition?
Beliefs of several major religions include practices that affect or prescribe specific dietary patterns or prohibit the consumption of certain foods.
What are the religious implications for dietary patterns?
This diet is ordered after surgery or as a transition from liquid diets to regular diets. Whole foods that are low in fiber and only lightly seasoned are used.
What is a soft diet?
Tube is surgically inserted into the neck and extends to the stomach.
What is an esophagostomy feeding route?
Patient who attempts to lower hypertension takes prescribed medication but also attends yoga classes is an example of what?
What is complementary medicine?
The most common carbohydrate used in parenteral nutrition.
What is dextrose monohydrate?
The most important prevention factors in foodborne illness.
What are personal hygiene and handwashing?
This diet is used to provide oral nourishment for patients with wired jaws and those who have difficulty chewing or swallowing solid foods.
Can be nutritionally completed.
What is a full liquid diet?
Patients should be positioned with the head of the bed at this degree for tube feeding.
What is 30-45 degrees?
The use of herbal supplements or shark cartilage to treat cancer instead of chemotherapy.
What is alternative medicine?
Water, amino acids, dextrose, electrolytes, vitamins, and trace elements.
What are the components of parenteral nutrition solutions?
Patient's with this intolerance may experience nausea, vomiting, distention, or diarrhea upon consumption of milk-based products.
What is lactose intolerance?
Liquid, Nectar, Pudding or Spoon-Thick
What are the 3 viscosities of thickened liquids?
Involves placing a feeding tube into the stomach via the esophagus and then drawing it through the abdominal skin using a stab incision.
What is a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy)?
Acupuncture, energy work, and herbal medicine have been apart of this type of medicine.
What is traditional medicine?
These formulations contain zinc, copper, manganese, chromium, and selenium.
What are trace elements?
Caused by the release of histamine and serotonin.
Responses usually occur quickly every time the food is eaten.
What is a food allergy?
No coarse textures are allowed, and foods are totally blended without lumps.
Liquids are ordered separately at pudding consistency.
What is a Level 1 Dysphagia Diet?
Common method of tube feeding.
It provides controlled delivery of a prescribed volume of formula at a constant rate over a continuous period using an infusion pump.
What is continuous infusion?
These cultures base their system on the forces of nature understood through the fundamental concept of yin and yang.
What are Eastern, traditional cultures?
Used as concentrated energy sources and to prevent the development of an essential fatty acid deficiency.
What are intravenous (IV) lipid emulsions?
Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens, Campylobacter spp., Staphylococcus aureus?
What are the top noroviruses that cause food poisoning?