According to a report by clinical scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, traumatic brain injury patients should be given nutritional supplements as soon as possible following the injury.
The recommended intake is through a gastric feeding tube, and if done timely enough, can increase a TBI patient’s chance of survival four-fold. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that optimal nutrition will improve your health and chances of healing, but this study from the Journal of Neurosurgery found that the nutritional supplementation recommended for the first week of recovery isn’t enough.
For optimal benefits, supplements need to be taken as soon as it is medically possible. The best outcome for TBI patients came from a minimum of 25kcal/kg each day, an amount that provides the body with what it needs to properly repair the complex damage in the brain.
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Diet may not be the first priority after a TBI but really we should have known. The body is going through so much it’s just common sense that it needs a boost.
Yes, surprising isn’t it, how many “common sense” applications we discover that are vital to our health and healing? Better late then never, I suppose!
The article was interesting. Near as I can figure the increase was relative to no feeding at all – which I found strange. It seems that 5% of the patients were not fed for 5 to 7 days. But what I couldn’t figure out if the patients had normal IV nutrition.
Just a constructive suggestion: I already had the article but if I didn’t I would not be able to look it up based on your blog post. It would be helpful if you included at least the primary author and the title of the article in future posts that relate to scholarly articles.
Thanks Catie, we always appreciate suggestions and will note it.