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 & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| General health | 19 |
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| Other | 14 |
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| Gain weight | 10 |
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3 | ||
| disease-related symptoms | 4 | 0 | |||||
| Fatigue | 2 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Ensure. See all 27 dosages ►
| 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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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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8 | 53% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 13% |
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Expense
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1 | 7% |
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Personal research
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1 | 7% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 7% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
See all 6 patient evaluations
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- spider
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: severe
- Chest: none
- Legs: moderate
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- spider
- 330 mL daily
- since May 03, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Bobby B
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: severe
- Chest: mild
- Legs: severe
- See profile
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- Bobby B
- 2 L all the time (24/7)
- since Sep 14, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Gain weight
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 6 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.