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ME/CFS Medical Education Mar 2, 2023

Doctors’ lack of training leads to malnutrition danger for patients with severe ME/CFS.

Some patients with very severe ME will require tube feeding, either enterally or parenterally. There can often be a significant delay in implementing this, due to professional opinion, allowing the patient to become severely malnourished.

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ME/CFS Medical Education

"...the NHS must urgently provide training on ME/CFS to medical staff. In the meantime, we urge doctors to take the danger of life-threatening malnutrition in a patient with severe ME/CFS very seriously, and to make every effort to provide nutrition."

https://mecfs-med-ed.org/2023/03/01/doctors-lack-of-training-leads-to-malnutrition-danger-for-patients-with-severe-me-cfs/

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Doctors’ lack of training leads to malnutrition danger for patients with severe ME/CFS

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Doctors’ lack of training leads to malnutrition danger for patients with severe ME/CFS