nutritional support
Feeding aid provision
Nutritional support is medical intervention to ensure adequate nourishment when normal eating is insufficient or impossible.
It ranges from dietary supplements to tube feeding (enteral nutrition) to intravenous delivery (parenteral nutrition).
The term appears in hospital settings and discussions of serious illness: The patient required nutritional support after surgery.
- feedingGiving food to
- feeding tubeDevice delivering nutrition internally
- nourishmentFood that sustains life
- IVVein-delivered medication method
- IV dripGravity-fed fluid administration
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nutritional supportstarvation
Extreme nutritional deprivation
malnutrition · undernutrition · inanition · underfeeding · fasting
nutritional supportletting nature take its course
Permitting events to unfold naturally
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