Quoted message said:Just out of curiosity .. do you have any idea WHAT type of 'nutrition'
.. is found in the diabetics .. drip .. ?I assume there IS .. 'added nutrition' .. of some sort .. ?
I would assume they INCLUDE .. iron .. since it is SOOOOOO ..
'important' .. ?
COMMENT:
No, iron is not a part of standard IV hydration fluids ever, and that
includes what they give diabetics. You rarely even find iron in IV
fluids in the mineral mix of patients getting total parenteral
nutrition (complete IV feeding) which in any case is a very small
subset of patients. Usually even the multiple trace element mix in TPN
contains NO iron.
Supplemental iron given by other routes than orally is almost always
given by IM injection. Very occasionally it can be given by IV now that
we have safer sucrose preparations, but doctors still don't like to do
it. And it's doen only in cases of manifestly iron deficient anemia
with no working gut.
Despite what you many think, very few doctors are unwise enough to give
iron supplements of any kind (even orally) to actively infected
patients. Though it sometimes can be continued by mistake when it was
being giving routinly in a patient who later becomes septic, and the ID
doc (or somebody on the ball) has to remind everybody to STOP.
SBH