[Dysphagia] thickened liquids

[EDolinger at Christianacare.org (Dolinger, Eric)]

Eeeh gads!
Brominated vegetable oil!?!?!!!!!

Eric Dolinger, MA CCC-SLP
Senior Speech Pathologist
Christiana Care Health System 
Phone 302-733-1015
Fax 302-733-1061
edolinger at christianacare.org


-----Original Message-----
From: dysphagia-bounces at dysphagia.com [mailto:dysphagia-bounces at dysphagia.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Francis
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:51 PM
To: Lindsey Lorteau
Cc: Dysphagia at b9.com
Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] thickened liquids


Regular water with a clean mouth would be less dangerous than water with the
list of ingredients you have shown.  Sugar!  Seems like a marketing ploy to
me and not based on good medical judgment.  I would not use the stuff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lindsey Lorteau" <LLORTEAU at sbgh.mb.ca>
To: <dysphagia at b9.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:58 PM
Subject: [Dysphagia] thickened liquids


We have just sampled today a new brand of thickened liquids that our
facility is going to be using from now on and I wondered if anyone else
has had experience with them.  They are called Carbotrol Nutrassist and
come in the same flavours as our previous supply from
Resource/Novartis.

I'm curious if anyone is aware of what the ingredients might do if they
happen to be aspirated though.  The juices seem to have the same stuff
as the Resource products but not the thickened water; it seems to have
quite a few more.  It is called Lemon Flavored with Electrolytes
Hydrating Beverage and its ingredients are:
water
high frustose corn syrup
modified food starch
natural and artificial flavors
salt
sodium citrate
potassium citrate
tricalcium phosphate
glycerol abietate
gum arabic
brominated vegetable oil
ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)

I don't tend to recommend that people drink thickened water alot; I
prefer that they drink regular water but some people may be drinking
this stuff anyway.

Thoughts?
Lindsey

Lindsey J M Lorteau, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
St Boniface General Hospital
409 Tach? Avenue
Winnipeg, MB  R2H 2A6
T 204-237-2322
F 204-235-3026
llorteau at sbgh.mb.ca


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