(1) The findings of a number of studies indicate that aggressive alimentation in patients with a wasting syndrome related to cancer may actually increase their discomfort.(2) Unable to turn speech into audition, excretion into alimentation , he cannot sustain the illusion of dialogue and interaction.(3) Of the three adults who received amphotericin B in addition to stopping the lipid alimentation , one had persistent fungemia and died of a cardiac arrest.(4) In general, enteral feeding is indicated in any patient who is unable to achieve adequate alimentation and hydration by mouth.(5) This is doubtless the change in meaningful alimentation that the newly formed Association of Business Development Trainers chairman is crying for.(6) Stroke and Parkinson's disease are the leading causes, frequently requiring enteral alimentation through nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes.(7) As oral alimentation was resumed, PEG feedings were discontinued, and within five days the prealbumin level declined.(8) He was managed conservatively with dietary restriction, parenteral fluids and alimentation , and prokinetic agents, and his paralytic ileus resolved.
