Modular Components for Nutrition Support

Many conditions can compromise a person's ability to digest food and convert it into the energy our bodies need. Some impediments occur as we age, or they may be the result of injury or a condition someone is born with. Whatever the cause, many people require modular supplements to ensure adequate nutrition. These can be added to a person’s normal diet or to an enteral feeding.

One of the advantages of using modular components is that they allow a health professional to tailor nutrition to a patient’s specific needs. This can improve outcomes, ensuring that patients are maintaining an adequate weight. Supplementing with modular components not only addresses the patient’s specific requirements, it also increases overall health and wellbeing. In addition, targeted nutrition support is a cost-effective way to give patients the specific nutrients they may be missing in their daily diet.

Honest Medical offers a variety of the leading modular nutritional support brands in the form of liquids, pills and powders that can be mixed with other food and drink, or taken alone.

Protein Modular Component Usage

• Long-Term Care: Those in long-term care – including the elderly and chronically ill – are susceptible to nutritional deficits for a variety of reasons, including decreased appetite, swallowing difficulties and cognitive impairment. In addition, some patients depend on enteral feeding to get their daily nutrition needs met, which often means adding modular protein components. If long-term patients are confined to bed or in a wheelchair for extended periods, bedsores can develop, and sufficient protein is needed to ensure healing. In all these cases, protein supplements can help boost the immune system, fuel energy and support healing.
• Gastric Bypass or Bariatric Surgery: Getting adequate protein after bariatric surgery is critical. Patients need protein support to help maintain muscle mass and promote healing as well as getting sufficient overall nutrition.
• Chronic or Genetic Conditions: Protein supplements are needed when metabolic disorders impair protein utilization, including phenylketonuria (PKU), and lysinuric protein intolerance. In addition, chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, where patients have trouble getting sufficient nutrition, may also be situations that call for modular nutrition.

Arginine Modular Component Usage

• Premature Babies: Often their small bodies are unable to produce enough arginine to promote healthy growth. HonestMed offers preterm infant formula.
• Physical Trauma: This is trauma caused by a severe injury that can be the result of an accident, third-degree or higher burns, or post-surgery wounds.
• Acute Illness: Sepsis or other severe illness can result in an arginine deficiency that needs to be addressed with modular components.
• Kidney Disease: When there is reduced kidney function, arginine biosynthesis is impaired, which means the patient isn’t getting enough amino acids.

Learn More

If you have any questions about our nutritional modular components, call an Honest Medical Care Specialist at (833) 933-2323.

Get additional information in these articles from our Honest Ideas blog:

• An Enteral Feeding Guide: Stocking Up on the Right Supplies
• Choosing the Best Protein for Seniors: A Guide to Protein-Packed Foods
• Bedsores: Treatment and Prevention