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What is Ensure Nutritional Drink?

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.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
General health 18 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Other 15 1 Efficacy_moderate
Support weight gain 14 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_none Efficacy_cant_tell
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) 4 0
Fatigue 3 1 Efficacy_moderate
nutrition issues 2 0

See all 35 patients currently using Ensure Nutritional Drink

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 1
None
 7

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Ensure Nutritional Drink

Constipation 1
Diarrhea 1

Reported Schedules

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently using Ensure Nutritional Drink. See all 30 dosages ►

  ml as needed daily 1 other daily 2 mL daily 2 other daily 3 other daily 7 other daily 237 mL daily 240 mL daily 1,000 mL daily
  4 Number of Patients: 4 4 Number of Patients: 4 5 Number of Patients: 5 2 Number of Patients: 2 3 Number of Patients: 3 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Ensure Nutritional Drink (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 8   Other: 47%
Side effects too severe 3   Side effects too severe: 18%
Expense 2   Expense: 12%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 6%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 6%

See all 14 patients who’ve stopped using Ensure Nutritional Drink

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Ensure Nutritional Drink

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Stopped Using Ensure Nutritional Drink

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Ensure Nutritional Drink

Always
 5 56%
Usually
 3 33%
Sometimes
 1 11%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Ensure Nutritional Drink

Very
 1 11%
Somewhat
 1 11%
A little
 1 11%
Not at all
 6 67%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Ensure Nutritional Drink

$200+
 2 33%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 2 33%
$25-49
 1 17%
< $25
 1 17%

Report created on February 11, 2012.