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Treatment and Prevention of Protein-Energy Malnutrition Emergency Care of Severely III Patients Treatment of Protein Depletion in Hospital Patients (With Trauma, Infection, Burns, or After Surgery) Correction of Mild to Moderate Protein-Energy Malnutrition Prevention of Protein-Energy Malnutrition Recent Developments in the Treatment and Prevention of Protein-Energy Malnutrition... 

Most CF patients have an increased caloric need due to increased energy expenditure through increased work of breathing and increased basal metabolism. Prevention of malnutrition requires early nutritional intervention. In patients with mild lung disease and well-controlled absorption, required caloric intake is approximately 100% to 120% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for age.15 As lung disease progresses, caloric requirements increase. 

Water-soluble vitamins removed by hemodialysis (HD) contribute to malnutrition and vitamin deficiency syndromes. Patients receiving HD often require replacement of water-soluble vitamins to prevent adverse effects. The vitamins that may require replacement are ascorbic acid, thiamine, biotin, folic acid, riboflavin, and pyridoxine. Patients receiving HD should receive a multivitamin B complex with vitamin C supplement, but should not take supplements that include fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, E, or K, which can accumulate in patients with renal failure. 

Careful monitoring and preventative care of high-risk patients can begin once these patients are identified. Intrinsic, or host-related, risk factors for the development of pressure sores include age greater than 75 years, limited mobility, loss of sensation, unconsciousness or altered sense of awareness, and malnutrition. Extrinsic, or environmental, risk factors include pressure, friction, shear stress, and moisture.37,42... 

Furthermore, pH determination has been used in other clinical research, both alone and in combination with other measurements. This research includes studies into the relationship between extracellular and intracellular pH in an ischemic heart [6, 7], the pH of airway lining fluid in respiratory disease [8], the study of pH as a marker for pyloric stenosis [9], malnutrition in alkalotic peritoneal dialysis patients [10], pH modulation of heterosexual HIV transmission [11, 12], and wound prevention and treatment [13], In addition, pH changes due to blood acidosis have been used to trigger and pace the ventricular rate of an implanted cardiac pacemaker [14], Research using pH measurements... 

The amonnt of protein synthesised and then released in (iv) and (v) is abont 70 g each day. Even under conditions of starvation or malnutrition, proliferation and differentiation of stem cells located in the crypts of the villi are important to provide the cells necessary for replenishment of those lost from the villi. New cells move up the villus to replace those lost at the top. Under these conditions, amino acids are not available from the intestine and have to be taken up from the blood across the basolateral membrane. A low level of amino acids in the blood, due to chronic malnutrition, will prevent or reduce the rate of proliferation of these cells, so that digestion of even the small amount of food ingested during malnutrition, or refeeding after starvation, is difficult. A vicious circle thus results from protein-deficient diets which increase the risk of development of protein-energy-malnutrition. This is especially severe in children but may also contribute to the clinical problems that occur in the elderly whose diets are of low quality. 

Vitamin E may be indicated in some rare forms of anemia such as macrocytic, megaloblastic anemia observed in children with severe malnutrition and the hemolytic anemia seen in premature infants on a diet rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Also anemia s in malabsorption syndromes have shown to be responsive to vitamin E treatment. Finally, hemolysis in patients with the acanthocytosis syndrome, a rare genetic disorder where there is a lack of plasma jS-lipoprotein and consequently no circulating alpha tocopherol, responds to vitamin E treatment. In neonates requiring oxygen therapy vitamin E has been used for its antioxidant properties to prevent the development retrolental fibroplasia. It should be noted that high dose vitamin E supplements are associated with an increased risk in allcause mortality. 

Research on avidin and biotin (vitamin H) developed from nutritional studies focused on understanding why rats fed large quantities of egg whites developed malnutrition. Subsequently, biotin was found to prevent this malnutrition and in 1975, Green [12] isolated the protein, avidin, in egg whites that was responsible for the biotin deficiency. In egg whites avidin serves as an... 

Breast-feeding a baby for at least six months is considered the best way to prevent early-childhood malnutrition. The United States Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services recommend that all Americans over the age of two ... 

At first, symptomatic measures (s. p. 648) are required in order to eliminate pruritus, prevent malnutrition, counteract osteopathy by means of regular physical exercise and eliminate the occurrence of complicative developments. This also includes careful observation with regard to any possible side effects of medicaments or metabolic disorders. The intensity of these measures as well as the intervals between any necessary monitoring measures depend on the initial findings and the individual course of disease. 

Selenium sulfide is used as an antiseborrheic agent and as a shampoo in the treatment of Tinea versicolor. Selenite is also found in mineral supplements and is used in parenteral nutrition. However, selenium has gained undeserved popularity as a constituent of health foods and alternative tonics, perhaps because selenium deficiency has been implicated in the pathogenesis of some forms of malnutrition in children. However, even in children with selenium deficiency the benefit to harm balance has not been estabhshed. Indeed, in protein deficiency it seems to be particularly toxic. Nor is there any serious basis for its reputation as a remedy for cystic fibrosis, to prevent aging, or as a sexual stimulant. 

Low-nitrogen (protein) diets have been advocated from the early years of treatment of severe chronic uremia. The very-low-protein diets tested in the MDRD Study were of marginal benefit in these well-supervised patients with very low renal function, but are not well adhered to in practice, may lead to negative nitrogen balance, and are not recommended. Protein intake is restricted spontaneously to approximately 0.6 to 0.8g/kg/day by uremic patients not receiving dietary advice. To prevent malnutrition, patients receive professional dietary advice, with diets containing an increased proportion of first class protein and increased calorie content of up to 35 kcal/kg/day. The NHANES III has confirmed an association with reduced GFR and malnutrition in noninstitutionalized individuals studied in a cross-sectional survey of more than 5000 participants stratified according to GFR. ... 

Nutritional status. Protein-calorie malnutrition is extremely common in alcoholics. Malnutrition may be due not only to poor intake but also to abnormal nutrient metabolism. Whereas poor nutrition may contribute to the evolution of alcoholic liver disease, adequate nutrition does not prevent its development. In fact, Studies suggest that obesity may be a risk factor. 

Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism occurs when defects in the hypothalamus or pituitary prevent normal gonadal stimulation. Causative factors include congenital or acquired panhypopituitarism, hypothalamic syndromes, GnRH deficiency, hyperprolactinemia, malnutrition or anorexia, and... 

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