Patients with serious illnesses such as head injuries, stroke, Guillain Barre, post-operative orthopaedic and neurosurgical conditions, which are vulnerable to complications and inflammation.
At the stage of rehabilitation and recovery, they show increased catabolism, i.e., the organism consumes much more calories and greater nutritional needs are created in terms of energy (calories) and nutrients, which are essential for the body's processes and the armouring of the immune system. These increased needs will be met with appropriate food and nutritional supplements.
Dietary supplements, according to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration), contain ingredients that supplement the diet and are not drugs. These ingredients are vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids and other substances such as enzymes.
Which categories of patients need nutritional supplements?
Indicatively, the special categories that may need nutritional supplements are people with:
- malabsorption (difficulty absorbing nutrients, proteins, minerals, vitamins)
- Chronic diseases
- People taking special categories of medicines
- Seniors 65 years and over
- people with intense stress of the body, such as after a surgery, head injuries, stroke, etc.
Their composition and dosage is determined by the doctor.
But what is the right diet that will help prevent unwanted complications such as sarcopenia, infections, bedsores, acute confusion, etc.?
All these complications have one thing in common the inflammation in various parts of the body. Dietary choices play an important role in preventing and fighting inflammation. Therefore the anti-inflammatory diet is the appropriate choice and is not particularly well known to the general public because it is not a weight loss diet.
What do we need to know about the anti-inflammatory diet?
- It is a diet to maintain and improve our health, especially in hospitalized patients with the aim of recovery.
- It is nutritious, healthy food and contributes to the patient's fast recovery according to scientific studies published in the Journal of Internal Medicine and the recommendations of the Harvard Medical School "Foods with anti-inflammatory activity can fight the inflammation of the body and the inflammation".
- It provides stable energy, plenty of vitamins, minerals, cellular fibers and good fatty acids.
The anti-inflammatory diet is summarized in 7 points:
- Low carbohydrate diet
- Low salt diet
- Low gluten diet
- Sugar is prohibited
- Fried food is prohibited
- Preferred instead of milk, butter, margarine, yoghurt and cheese products.
- Diet rich in good fatty acids
Depending on the specifics, the doctor, in collaboration with the nutritionist of the rehabilitation centre Euxia will modify and adapt the diet for each patient.
The anti-fungal diet helps recovery and healing
Remember
"Proper nutrition helps to prevent unwanted complications such as infections, sarcopenia, acute confusion in the recovery and convalescence stage of the patient"
