Description

Tabitha Farrar talks to Dr Graham Redgrave about the research done at Johns Hopkins looking into higher weights and a faster rate of refeeding patients with Anorexia in an inpatient hospital setting. The conversation includes:

• Refeeding intakes, traditional expectations versus new developements
• Problems with low target weights
• Relapse prevention programs
• Lower rate of relaspe for patients who reach higher BMIs in treatment
• The case for higher caloric intakes once the risk of refeeding syndrome is past
• What refeeding syndrome is, and research around this
• How and when treatment fails patients. 
• Why we need to challenge the current guidelines pertraining to refeeding intakes

Link to the orginal study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625572

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