Ensure Plus Fibre is a complete, balanced nutritional sip feed, with mixed fibre and FOS (fructooligosaccharides), designed for people at risk of disease related malnutrition. Ensure Plus Fibre is a high energy, high protein liquid supplying extra energy within a limited volume and contains fibre and fructooligosaccharides. Ensure Plus Fibre may be used as a nutritional supplement or as the sole source of nutrition for patients who cannot or will not eat sufficient quantities of everyday food and drink to meet their nutritional requirements.
Ensure Plus Fibre is a 1.6kcal/ml, ready-to-drink, milkshake style oral nutritional supplement with fibre, for people with, or at risk of developing, disease-related malnutrition. Ensure Plus Fibre contains a mix of fibre and FOS (fructo-oligosaccharides).
Malnutrition and loss of weight occurs when the body is not getting enough of the nutrients and vitamins it needs to stay healthy and it can develop if a person stops eating properly, cannot eat at all, or if the body needs more nutrients than normal (e.g. due to infection or disease). Malnutrition can occur from some of these condition/infections:
- Mental health condition/Depression,
- Ulcerative colitis,
- Dementia,
- Vomiting /diarrhoea,
- Eating disorder/Anorexia nervosa/Bulimia,
- Food Poisoning,
- Cancer/Oncology,
- Cow’s Milk Allergy,
- Critical Care/ICU,
- Cystic Fibrosis,
- Diabetes,
- Epilepsy,
- Failure to thrive/Faltering growth,
- Kidney/Renal Disease,
- Liver Disease/Cirrhosis,
- Malabsorption/Maldigestion,
- Malnutrition/Undernutrition,
- Pre & Post surgery,
- Respiratory Disease,
- Swallowing Problems,
- Dysphasia,
- Loss of weight in older adults,
- Would healing,
- Throat Reflux,
- Paediatric-Malnutrition,
- Gastrointestinal (GI) Intolerance,
- Stroke,
- Coma ,
- Bedsores,
- Phenylketonuria ,
- Digestive problems,
- Dehydration.
Malnutrition can have an impact on both physical and mental health; symptoms include loss of weight, tiredness and a lack of energy.
Patients can overcome malnutrition and involentary loss of weight or maintaining nutrients by consulting a nutritionist to determin the level of malnutrition. There are various way to overcome loss of weight. These include nutritional food with additional nutrients, adding snacks to increase nutritional or energy intake, adding extra calories to food. Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) such as Ensure Plus can be a simple way to obtain extra nutrition. In some cases, additional or full nutrition may be given via a feeding tube.
Ensure plus fibre is suitable for patients with:
- Disease related malnutrition
- Constipation or diarrhoea
- Neurological disorders
- Anorexia or poor appetite
- Pre- and post-operative
