Tips for Dining Out

Follow these tips to navigate eating out if you have specialized nutrition needs due to gastrointestinal diseases.

Travel Letters

Traveling of any kind requires preparation and planning for the unexpected. This is especially true of patients traveling with nutrition support—they must always ensure that they can continue therapy without interruption.

Home Enteral Nutrition at Option Care Health

New patients have many questions and concerns when they begin an EN regimen at home. For Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy patients, Option Care Health’s Registered Dietitians can work with you and your prescriber to determine the best formula for your clinical condition and your individual needs.

Adjusting to Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy

Being told you or your loved one needs a feeding tube can be overwhelming. The fear of the unknown can be scary with all the equipment, supplies, and new terminology. Embrace the “new normal” of Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy and see the therapy for the incredible benefit it provides with these tips.

Additional Resources

  • 一般援助和经济援助
  • 出血性疾病输液
  • 心力衰竭输液
  • 免疫球蛋白输液
  • 营养支持输液

一般和财政援助资源

疾病控制和预防中心
www.cdc.gov
800.232.4636

美国国立卫生研究院
www.nih.gov
301.496.4000

梅奥诊所
www.mayoclinic.com

Patient Services, Inc.(患者服务公司)
www.patientservicesinc.org
800.366.7741

Patient Advocate Foundation(病患权益基金会)
www.patientadvocate.org
800.532.5274

First Hand Foundation(一手基金会)
www.firsthandfoundation.org
816.201.1569

Family Relief Fund(家庭救助基金)
www.familyrelieffund.org
800.856.5712

National Center for Medical Home Implementation(国家医疗之家实施中心)
(美国儿科学会)
www.medicalhomeinfo.org
847.434.4000

*由于参照经济援助计划而算得的节省费用可能并不对所有患者提供或不适用于所有患者。

出血性疾病输液资源

National Hemophilia Foundation(国家血友病基金会)
www.hemophilia.org
800.424.2634

LA Kelley Communications, Inc.
www.kelleycom.com
978.352.­7657

Hemophilia Federation of America(美国血友病联盟)
www.hemophiliafed.org
800.­230.­9797

The Coalition for Hemophilia B(B 型血友病联合会)
http://hemob.org
212.520.8272

Hemophilia of Georgia(佐治亚州血友病协会)
www.hog.org/handbook
770.518.8272

World Federation of Hemophilia(世界血友病联盟)
www.wfh.org
514.875.7944

The CDC Division of Blood Disorders(美国疾病控制与预防中心出血性疾病部门)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/blooddisorders/index.html
800.232.4636

心力衰竭输液资源

American Association of Heart Failure Nurses(美国心力衰竭护士协会)
www.aahfn.com
888.452.2436

American Heart Association(美国心脏协会)
www.americanheart.org
800.­242.8721

心力衰竭在线
www.heartfailure.org

Heart Failure Society of America(美国心衰学会)
www.hfsa.org
301.312.­8635

Heart Rhythm Society(美国心律学会)
www.hrsonline.org
202.464.­3400

免疫球蛋白输液资源

GBS/CIDP Foundation International(GBS/CIDP 国际基金会)
http://www.gbs-­cidp.org
610.667.­0131
866.­224.3301

Immune Deficiency Foundation(免疫缺陷基金会)
www.primaryimmune.org
800.296.­4433

营养支持输液资源

Oley Foundation(Oley 基金会)
800.­776.­OLEY

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics(美国营养与饮食学会)
http://eatright.org
800.­877.­1600

American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition(美国肠外肠内营养学会) (ASPEN)
www.nutritioncare.org<br />301.587.6315

American Gastroenterological Association(美国胃肠病协会)(AGA)
www.gastro.org
301.654.2055

Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc.(胃肠动力障碍性疾病协会)(AGMD)
www.agmd-­gimotility.org
781.275.1300

Celiac Disease Foundation(乳糜泻基金会)
www.celiac.org
818.716.1513

Celiac Support Association(乳糜泻支持协会)
www.csaceliacs.org
877.272.­4272

American Cancer Society(美国癌症学会)
www.cancer.org
800.­227.­2345

美国克隆氏症与结肠炎基金会
www.ccfa.org
800.­932.­2423

Digestive Disease National Coalition(美国消化系统疾病联合会)(DDNC)
www.ddnc.org
202.544.7497

关注喂食管基金会
www.feedingtubeawareness.org

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive and Kidney Disease(美国糖尿病与消化和肾脏疾病研究院)
www.niddk.nih.gov/
301.496.­3583

Short Bowel Syndrome Foundation(短肠综合征基金会)
www.shortbowelfoundation.org
402.525.5784