Dietary Modifications
Diets that involves modifications in consistency, texture, or nutrients.
What are qualitative diets?
This type of practice treats organ systems, rather than the person as a whole.
What is conventional western medicine?
A formula designed to meet specialized nutrient demands for specific disease states, such as diabetes, renal failure, liver failure, pulmonary disease, and HIV/AIDS.
What is specialty formula?
Tube is surgically inserted into the stomach.
What is gastrostomy?
When medical personnel talk about "enteral nutrition," they are referring to this.
What is tube feeding?
Diets that involves modifications in number or size of meals served or amounts of specific nutrients.
What are quantitative diets?
This refers to to non-Western healing approaches used at the same time as conventional medicine?
What is complementary medicine?
This type of formula is designed to meet kcal and protein demands in a reduced volume, and have moderate to high osmolality.
What is hypercaloric formula?
Tube is surgically inserted into the neck and extends to the stomach.
What is esophagostomy?
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?
A diet designed to attain or maintain optimal nutritional status in people who do not require dietary alterations.
What is regular diet?
This is based on noninvasive, natural healing to recover from disease and to achieve wellness. Techniques include acupuncture, exercise, massage, and dietary alterations.
What is naturopathic medicine?
A type of formula that contains a single macronutrient.
What is modular formula?
Tube is passed through the nose to the stomach.
What is nasogastric?
It involves delivering the total quantity of formulas needed for a 24-hour period in three to six equals feedings.
What is intermittent infusion?
A diet that consists of foods that are clear and liquid at room or body temperature.
What is clear liquid diet?
An example of this is using herbal remedies and shark cartilage to treat cancer instead of using conventional approaches such as chemotherapy or surgery.
What is alternative medicine?
It is composed of partially or fully hydrolyzed nutrients that can be used for patients with a partially functioning GI tract.
What is elemental formula?
Tube is passed through from the nose to the second section of the small intestine (jejunum).
What is nasojejunal?
It involves infusing volumes of formula by gravity or syringe over short periods.
What is bolus feeding?
A diet that is used for patients who have swallowing impairment. This diet is altered in consistency to prevent lung aspiration. This diet has four levels.
What is dysphagia diet?
These are products that contain one or more of the following: a vitamin or mineral, an herb or other botanical, an amino acid, a dietary substance, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or a combination of the preceding ingredients. The FDA does not need to approve them in order for them t be marketed.
What are dietary supplements?
This terms refers to the concentration of dissolved particles in a solution.
What is osmolality?
Tube is passed through from the nose to the first section of the small intestine (duodenum).
What is nasoduodenal?
The _________ of a hypertonic formula can lead to GI distress such as intestinal distention and osmotic diarrhea.
What is high osmolality?