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A healthy mind resides in a healthy body, and a healthy body comes with proper nutrition
Therapeutic nutrition in Seniors clinic is designed to treat all nutritional problems elderly patients suffer from, either due to age or chronic diseases.
In these clinics, we use the latest nutritional programmes under the supervision of therapeutic nutrition consultants.
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Treatment of eldelry nutritional problems accompanying chronic diseases:
Nutrition and diet affect many diseases, as it could increase or decrease their complications, some of these diseases are:
Diabetes:
Nutrition has a strong connection to diabetes medications, and it could affect blood glucose levels, either causing diabetic coma or hyperglycemia. In addition, it might cause muscle atrophy and many other complications.
Hypertension:
Hypertension can be easily affected by nutrition, for example: fatty meals can increase the incidence of strokes and thrombosis. In addition to the effect of obesity on hypertension stage.
Kidney failure:
Kidney function is affected by the minerals in diet, specially sodium and potassium, plus it’s strongly related to water and fluids.
Liver diseases:
Liver health is affected by carbohydrates, animal protein and salt in diet.
All these diseases require careful follow up with qualified nutritional specialists and consultants, to ensure having a balanced diet and the necessary medications suitable for each case.
Loss of appetite treatment:
Loss of appetite is very common in elderly patients for many reasons, such as: lack of physical activity, digestive system disorders, having plenty of medications, swallowing difficulties, in addition to living alone, which has a great impact on the mood of elderly patients.
In Seniors clinic, we aim to determine the exact reason for loss of appetite in those patients, in order to treat it properly.
Full nutritional programmes to lose weight safely:
Losing weight is one of the best ways to deal with knee stiffness, breathing difficulties and lack of physical activity in elderly patients, but in those patients it must be done under the supervision of a nutritional specialist, so as not to affect their health or medications in a negative way.
Comprehensive assessment, advice and guidance to prevent diseases and complications of malnutrition:
Nutrition for elderly patients must be monitored by a nutritional specialist to ensure giving them the minerals, vitamins and calories their bodies need, each according to their cases. That helps avoid any complications that might happen due to lack of nutrients, such as anemia.
In Seniors clinics, we prescribe a balanced diet that prevents the patients of malnutrition and obesity, and it also reduces the chances of chronic diseases.
How to prepare for your visit:
- Writing down everything you’ve eaten in the 3 days prior to your visit, and monitoring the symptoms you encounter before or after everything you eat will help your doctor evaluate your diet in the most accurate way.
- Not eating before visiting the doctor for at least 2 hours, will help you measure your weight accurately.
What happens during your visit?
- In the beginning, the nutritional specialists ask the patients for necessary information, then they measure weight and height to determine BMI suitable for the patients’ age.
- Doctors take detailed medical history from the patients, including the reason of visit, the presence of chronic diseases, prescribed medications, latest lab tests and imagining, whether the patient had any previous surgical procedures and any other information related to the patient diet.
- Based on all the previous information, the nutritional specialists prescribe a balanced diet suitable for the patient’s social and financial status.
In addition, they give the patients advice regarding their physical activity and medications.