Hello again! Firstly, I’m really sorry I haven’t posted anything for so long. I have limited spare time and energy and I’ve been concentrating on a different EDS project instead. Hopefully you’ll agree it was worth taking a break for. About 18 months ago I wrote a blog post titled ‘Could Nutrition Supplements Improve the […]
Parenteral Nutrition
Are All Administration Sets Sterile?
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A slightly different style of blog post for you today. At a stretch you could call it ‘investigative journalism’, although some might think ‘paranoid rant’ is more accurate. Either way this issue was an annoying problem for me for a while so it seemed appropriate to write about it. Intrigued? Here’s my rant… Unfortunately I […]
Home Artificial Nutrition Week – UPDATE
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8-14th August was Home Artificial Nutrition Week, organised by the PINNT charity. As someone who has had his life saved twice by different forms of artificial nutrition I should have been fully behind this campaign, but I’m over three weeks late writing this article, sorry! My excuse is good though, I’ll get to that later. […]
Two Years of Parenteral Nutrition
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Two years ago this month I weighed just 7 stone and 1 pound. I’m over six foot tall so I had a waistline like a dehydrated supermodel. I’d been unable to eat normal food for some time, so I was being fed liquid food through a tube into my stomach, called a PEG. I found […]