title: Feeding practice in acute stroke patients in a tertiary care hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Feeding is a basic component of care and it is the most common and difficult management issue for stroke patients. Objective of this study was to know the practice of feeding (oral & nasogastric tube feeding), different types of food used and their caloric value in stroke patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  This direct observational study was done from June 2010 to November 2010, in different medicine wards of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, and included 100 acute stroke patients confirmed by CT scan or MRI of brain and duration of hospital stay for at least 24 hours.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of 100 cases, 22% took their feeding orally and 78% cases through nasogastric tube. Artificial milk powder 66% cases (NG tube vs. Orally, 58% vs. 8%), juice 18% (NG tube 13% vs. orally 5%), horlicks & juice & soup 10% (NG tube vs. Orally, 7% vs. 3%), khichury 2% orally, bread & egg & shuji 4% cases orally. In 100 cases studied, none of them fulfilled the calorie requirement up to the standard level according to the guideline of Nutrition & Food Science Institute, of Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Though this study was small scale but the magnitude of under nutrition among stroke patients revealed is alarming and needs urgent attention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka.
authors.forename: Md Titu
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Miah
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Amin
authors.forename: Mohammad Ashik Imran
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: K F M
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Ayaz
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Zakaria
authors.forename: Srijoni
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: H A M Nazmul
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Ahasan
mesh_terms: D001459:Bangladesh; D002149:Energy Intake; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005502:Food; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal; D020521:Stroke / Q000628:therapy*