Diets For Patients Entering The Hospital
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This section is from the book "Lectures On Dietetics", by Max Einhorn. Also available from Amazon: Lectures on Dietetics.
Diets For Patients Entering The Hospital
With regard to diet we can divide patients entering a hospital into the following groups: (1) patients without fever suffering from constitutional, nervous, and skin lesions requiring, medical aid and likewise patients without fever with some special affections outside of the digestive tract, as for instance, tumors of the knee, dermoid cysts, lipomata, etc., needing surgical help; (2) patients without fever suffering from the digestive tract; (3) medical or surgical; cases accompanied by fever.
In group 1 a full diet can be given.
In group 2 a soft diet is best.
In group 3 a liquid diet should be instituted.
In the following I give the 3 forms of diet: (1) full diet; (2)Soft diet, (3) fluid diet, as used in the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, which are very appropriate for patients entering the hospital, as preliminary modes of nutrition.
Dietary For Patients Entering Hospitals | ||||
Breakfast | Second breakfast | Dinner | Supper | |
Form I | Bread, 4 0z. | Milk, 3/4 pt. | Soup, 1/2 pt. | Cold meat, 4 oz. |
Full diet ... | Coffee with milk, 3/4 pt. | Zwieback, 2 or or crackers, 3 | Meat, 5 oz. | Bread, 4 oz. |
Potatoes, 6 oz. | Butter, 1/2 oz. | |||
Sugar, 1/2 oz. | Vegetables, 4 oz. on Sunday | Tea with milk | ||
Butter | ||||
Butter, 1/2 oz. | Tuesday | Stewed fruit on certain days | ||
Oatmeal or farina or force, 4 oz. | Wednesday | |||
Thursday | Eggs instead of meat | |||
Saturday | ||||
Eggs, soft boiled | Pudding or stewed fruit on Friday also fish | |||
Form II | ||||
Soft diet___ | Oatmeal or farina or rice with milk, 10 oz. | Milk, 3/4 pt. | Eggs, soft boiled, 3 | Eggs, soft boiled, 3 |
Zwieback, 2 | ||||
Crackers, 3 | Soup with farina, rice or hominy, 1/2 pt. | Rice with milk, 1/2 pt. | ||
Butter | ||||
Coffee or cocoa with milk, 1/2 pt. | Crackers, 3 | |||
Butter, 1/2 oz. | ||||
Crackers | Fruit jelly | |||
Crackers, 1 oz. | Butter | |||
Butter, 1/2 oz. | ||||
Afternoon | ||||
Lunch | ||||
Milk, 3/4 pt. | ||||
Zwieback, 2 | ||||
Crackers, 3 | ||||
Form III | ||||
Fluid diet... | Milk, or coffee, or cocoa with milk, 3/4 pt. | Milk. 3/4 Pt. | Beef tea, or gruel broth, 3/4 pt. | Milk or tea, or cocoa with milk, 3/4 pt. |
Zwieback, 2 or crackers, 2 | ||||
Eggs, raw. 1 | Eggs, raw, 1 | Eggs, raw, 1 | ||
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