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Article: Eating: what can I do to help?

Common problems with eating after Intensive Care Patients often lose weight during their time in Intensive Care. Patients who spend a long time in Intensive Care can lose a lot of weight, sometimes up to 20% of their weight from when they were first admitted. There are a number of problems with eating which are common after Intensive Care. They include things like poor appetite, food not tasting quite as it should (with either a metallic or salty taste), feeling full quickly and...

Web Link: Swallowing, communication and mouthcare

This link will take you to an excellent patient support resource from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and their webpages on problems with swallowing, communication and mouthcare.

Article: Weight loss

Article length: 6 minutes (Read now or tap the button above to add this resource to your personal library to read later) Patients can lose a lot of weight during their time in Intensive Care (sometimes up to 20% of their weight on admission) and often have issues with eating after transfer to the general wards. This can happen for many reasons; some are physical, some psychological and others are to do with hospital routine (eg being presented with food at very different times to when...