Getting enough nutrients is crucial to keeping your body functioning properly. If you don't eat enough food or if your body can't absorb food, you run the risk of malnutrition. You can recover from ...

Refeeding syndrome is a complex metabolic disturbance that occurs when nutrition is reintroduced to malnourished, critically ill patients. It is principally marked by rapid shifts in fluid and ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have a greater likelihood of developing ...

Dear A.S.: Refeeding syndrome is a serious concern when someone who is dangerously thin begins eating again. I have seen this only in people with anorexia nervosa, and all the patients I have seen ...

Even if food aid reaches Gaza, Sudan and other famine zones, complications can arise in malnourished or starving people when they regain access to regular meals. Those complications can be fatal.As of ...

Dear Dr. Roach • My brother got very thin (112 pounds and he is 6 feet tall) from anxiety. When he gets really worked up, he doesn’t eat. His doctor put him on medication for this, which she said ...

A Crown medical witness has testified that the 12-year-old boy at the centre of a harrowing Ontario murder trial could have died from “refeeding syndrome,” a condition that can come on suddenly — and ...