Unit 3 - Nutrition (e-book)
3.5 Nutritional supplements
Nutritional supplements are products manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. They are developed with the purpose of being administered to people with deficient nutritional needs.
Supplements for dysphagia's people are prescribed by a health professional only in those cases where there are chronic nutrient deficiencies, either due to insufficient intake through diet, interaction with drugs or other causes.
Figure 61. Examples of Oral nutritional supplementation (Source: designed by CADIS Huesca)
Figure 62. Examples of enteral nutritional supplementation (Source: designed by CADIS Huesca)