Refeeding syndrome is caused by sudden shifts in the electrolytes that help your body metabolize food. Certain conditions may increase your risk for this condition, including anorexia, alcohol use ...

Getting enough nutrients is crucial to keeping your body functioning properly. If you don't eat enough food or if your body can't absorb food, you run the risk of malnutrition. You can recover from ...

Refeeding syndrome can develop when someone who is malnourished begins to eat again. The syndrome occurs because of the reintroduction of glucose, or sugar. As the body digests and metabolizes food ...

Refeeding syndrome (RFS), a life-threatening medical condition, is commonly associated with acute or chronic starvation. While the prevalence of patients at risk of RFS in hospital reportedly ranges ...

salt and water retention leading to oedema and heart failure, which may be exacerbated by cardiac atrophy, hypokalaemia due to rapid cellular uptake of potassium as glucose and amino acids are taken ...

Dear A.S.: Refeeding syndrome is a serious concern when someone who is dangerously thin begins eating again. I have seen this only in people with anorexia nervosa, and all the patients I have seen ...

Even if food aid reaches Gaza, Sudan and other famine zones, complications can arise in malnourished or starving people when they regain access to regular meals. Those complications can be fatal.As of ...

As deaths from starvation in the Gaza Strip continue to rise, experts say there’s no easy way out of the crisis due to the medical complexity of treating severe malnutrition. More than 160 people — at ...

Anorexia is about eating as little as possible. What counts as 'possible' varies from sufferer to sufferer: It may be next to nothing, a few calories a day, to induce rapid weight loss and ...