[Karliner]

See post #24. There are legalities to force feed a patient. There was a movie I remember in the latter years of my nursing entitled Sharing the Secret which is about builemia which might be more appropriate to this( don't know). But yes, feeding tubes, gastric tubes and such. The problem is many patients ARE suicidal or are in such atrocious states mentally they will pull their IV's, and do the binging and purging anyway. I still think this is would have to be treated as a mental disorder and ordered via the courses for treatment. That's the way we used to do it.

One must read charts and figure the history or the patient but sounds like this is not just anorexia which is why I suggested full restraints but one cannot just order restraints 24/7. It's illegal. So I would think this patient has much more issues than just anorexia nervosa but I retired a decade ago.

[cherry]

it is still illegal to restrain someone without proper documentation, and restraining someone does not give you the right to force feed them....

even FOUR siderails up is a restraint and can not be done in a hospital...

any of you want to be tied down and forced fed?...

NOT ME!

you could take this young woman and tie her down, force a tube down her throat and feed her or put a tube in her belly against her will and feed her that way, or place large IV catheters into her chest and give her TPN...all the while her hands must be restrained so she can't pull at them...

Be careful what you wish for....