Refeeding syndrome is a complex metabolic disturbance that occurs when nutrition is reintroduced to malnourished, critically ill patients. It is principally marked by rapid shifts in fluid and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In severe cases of refeeding syndrome, multisystem collapse may occur within a few hours of the start of feeding. Therefore, all hospitals have updated the guidelines for gradual and especially ...

A Crown medical witness has testified that the 12-year-old boy at the centre of a harrowing Ontario murder trial could have died from “refeeding syndrome,” a condition that can come on suddenly — and ...