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Ensure Treatment Report
What is Ensure?
Ensure is a food supplement often recommended by nutritionists or dieticians to 'ensure' that ALS/MND patients are getting enough calories and vitamins when swallowing difficulties or arm weakness make eating whole foods difficult or no longer pleasurable.
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Reasons taken
55 patients in the community are taking or have taken Ensure.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
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| General health | 18 | 32% |
| Other | 14 | 25% |
| Gain weight | 10 | 18% |
| disease-related symptoms | 4 | 7% |
| Fatigue | 1 | 1% |
Other treatments patients are taking for General health include Multivitamins, Omega 3 Fish Oil, and Vitamin C.
| 1.5ml as needed | 1other as needed | 200ml as needed | 250ml as needed | 2 L all the time (24/7) | 30ml as needed | daily | ml as needed | 1 mL daily | 1 other daily | 2 mL daily | 3 other daily | 4 mL daily | 4 other daily | 6 other daily | 7 other daily | 8 mL daily | 236.5 ml daily | 237 mL daily | 240 mL daily | 250 mL daily | 250 other daily | 674 mL daily | 900 mL daily | 1000 mL daily | 1200 daily | 1200 mL daily | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been taking Ensure or how long patients were taking Ensure before stopping.
Currently Taking Ensure
Stopped Taking Ensure
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 6 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Moderate | 33% | 1 |
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| None | 33% | 1 |
| Can't tell | 33% | 1 |
Gain weight
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
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| Moderate | 17% | 1 |
| Mild | 17% | 1 |
| None | 67% | 4 |
Top reported side-effects include: Constipation, Diarrhea
Summary results are based on 6 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 6)
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- spider
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: severe
- Chest: none
- Legs: moderate
- See profile
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by spider
May 03, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- General health
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
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- Bobby B
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: severe
- Chest: mild
- Legs: severe
- See profile
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by Bobby B
Sep 14, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- Gain weight
- See full evaluation
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Report created on November 08, 2009.