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[Dysphagia] PEG to oral


  • Subject: [Dysphagia] PEG to oral
  • From: pressmah at sjhmc.org (pressmah@sjhmc.org)
  • Date: Tue Oct 5 10:40:11 2004

I would offer purees and honey thick liquids, his previous diet, as a
clinial evaluation.  If he appears to tolerate it then resume PO ad lib and
taper the PEG feedings  Hilda Pressman

-----Original Message-----
From: Harmony [mailto:harmony@bmlug.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:51 AM
To: dysphagia@b9.com
Subject: [Dysphagia] PEG to oral


I have a client (with developmental disability) who was recently in 
hospital for 7 weeks, lost 9kg and then given a PEG since he was NBM 
for the duration of his stay. I am looking into trialling him on oral 
foods but I need some info about what foods/fluids to start with. He 
was previously on a puree diet and honey thick fluids which he ate 
quite well. He was admitted for status epilepticus and developed 
pneumonia after 3 visits to ICU and intubated a number of times. He is 
now stable and back 'home' and doing quite ok so far with the PEG 
feeding. The dietitians are monitoring him closely as well.
Does anyone have any input on the initial foods/fluids that I can trial 
him on?
Thanks,
Harmony
Speech Pathologist

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