Dietetics for Nurses

The poisoning due to ptomaine is very similar to that brought about by overeating and other dietetic errors. However, it is not so easy to avoid being poisoned by ptomaines as i...

~Dairy Products.~--Milk, cream, and other dairy products form such an important part of the invalid dietary that they require especial care in their selection. "Certified Milk"...

The value of a knowledge of food and its effect in the human body cannot be overestimated. In health, this knowledge leads to higher standards, since by pointing out the errors...

In taking up this part of our study on nutrition, there are several points to be kept in mind by the nurse: (1) that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to understand the m...

Gout is a constitutional disease characterized by an inflammatory condition of the joints. It is caused by or associated with a retention of uric acid in the blood. Gout is also...

~Digestive Disturbances.~--It is a well-established fact that artificially fed infants are more subject to disturbances due to diet than breast-fed infants, the digestional dist...

Nephritis is a disease of the kidneys, in which changes occur in the tissues of the organs themselves; these changes may be caused by inflammation of the kidneys and renal passa...

~Definition.~--Diabetes is a disease which is characterized by an inability on the part of the body to utilize the carbohydrates, in consequence of which there is abnormal excre...

There are several methods of feeding which have been adopted to meet the needs of the individual under various conditions: Feeding by mouth, gavage or forced feeding, rectal fee...

Oxygen about 65 per cent Carbon about 18 per cent Hydrogen about 10 per cent Nitrogen about 3 per cent Calcium about 2 per cent Phosphorus about 1 per cent Potassium about 0.35...

~Predisposing Factors.~--The majority of diseases affecting the stomach have as their predisposing factors, and owe their development to, one or all of the following conditions:...

Put one pint of skimmed milk into a clean saucepan and heat to a temperature of 100 deg. F. (lukewarm). To this milk add 2 teaspoonfuls of liquid rennet, essence of pepsin, or 2...

Diarrhea, like gastritis, may be a symptom of many diseases and a result of many digestional disturbances. Enteritis, enterocolitis, dysentery, typhoid fever, and certain cases...

The human body, as far as can be judged, does not use one nutrient to the exclusion of another, but science has proved that the best results are obtained from diets balanced to...

~Definition.~--Typhoid fever is an acute infectious disease excited by specific bacteria (Eberth). The intestines become the seat of ulcerations (Peyer's patches), which at time...

The importance of the kidney functions has been clearly demonstrated. Urine, which is the fluid secreted by these organs, is one of the most important sources of information, no...

The dietetic treatment which is essential before and after operations is deserving of attention here, since it constitutes one of the points so frequently overlooked or slighted...

Much of the so-called biliousness from which the human family is so prone to suffer is nothing more or less than one of Nature's danger signals by means of which man may underst...

~Character of Disease.~--The disease may have reached an acute stage in which the rise of temperature is marked and the progress of the tuberculous symptoms rapid, or it may be...

There are many traditions in regard to the food requirements of the prospective mother. Many of these have been proved fallacies. As a matter of fact it is the woman more than t...

~The Diet.~--In this pathological condition, as in many other diseases in which one or more of the functions of the body have become impaired, there can be no hard and fast rule...

Science has proved that the human body is composed of certain chemical elements and that food materials are combinations of like elements; it has likewise proved that the body w...

Fever is an abnormal condition characterized by an elevation of body temperature, quickened respiration and circulation, and a certain amount of tissue waste. This elevation of...