Nutrition & Wound Care Educational & Consultation
Nutrition & Wound Care Educational & Consultation
Health to Heal Inc. and The Wound Guru continue to promote holistic wound healing through adequate protein intake
Health to Heal Inc. has acquired The Wound Guru ™ web-app. The Wound Guru ™ is a wound specific, smart wound dressing app, and teaching tool that will transform any user from a novice to a wound care expert in no time at all. The app is the most comprehensive wound care tool available on the market today. By answering a few questions about your wound, you can finally find the best products to use and learn exactly what and why the products do for your wound. Click the link below and you will be sent to the Guru's web-app.
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With our busy lifestyles of the twenty-first century, many of us rarely eat to take care of our bodies. The more we age the more chronic problems we collect and then we begin to pile on medications, adding problems to fix our problems. When the body develops an acute illness, goes through an invasive surgery or develops a wound, it goes from a state of stress into a state shock. Understanding that we must have adequate macronutrients(Carbs, Fats and Proteins) and micronutrients(Vitamin & Minerals) to support our immune system and our bodies' ability to heal, is imperative.
For more than a decade now, researchers and concerned medical professionals have looked at the nutritional intake requirements of age groups of 18 to 49, 50 to 64 and 65 and up. Due to the changes within the body during the normal aging process, each age group requires more and more protein intake, respectively. As we age our digestive system can be less effective at absorbing the food that we eat. Likewise, the older we get, our bodies begin to lose the ability to store the food we eat and in so many cases, the elderly are just not hungry anymore.
The geriatric population is one of the most at risk populations for malnutrition. To be even more specific, they are the most at risk for protein-malnutrition. The loss of muscle mass, the changes in cognition, the degradation of the body's metabolic processes, and the loss of function of taste buds are just a few of the issues the geriatric population suffers from. These and more along with the lack of clinical education on the increased required intake for geriatrics, leaves this population with extreme comorbidities related to non-healing wounds.
When geriatrics have surgery or develop wounds, the nutritional aspects of healing are more profound than that of the younger adult. The geriatric person already comes with a multitude of progressive deficiencies that are overlooked by medicine. Understanding these massive nutritional requirements will assist clinicians and caregivers in providing adequate nutritional support for healing.
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Upon admission to a hospital, over 50% of Geriatric patients have a high risk for or are diagnosed with malnutrition. As a result, Geriatric patients have an increased length of stay during the hospital admission and have an increased risk of death.
Protein intake for adults = 5-6 servings per day
Fruit intake for adults = 4-5 servings per day
Color gives you a variety of essential nutrients
Good source of fiber
Vegetable intake = 4-5 servings per day
Vital nutrients come from vibrant colors
Good source of fiber
Fluid intake is important for body function and for healing
1 oz of fluid per Kg of body weight per day
Soda should never count as part of daily fluid intake
Caffeinated beverages, you may count half the volume
For obesity, you may want to decrease from 1:1 volume
The RDA of protein is 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram per day or multiply your weight in pounds by 0.36 for your requirement.
The RDA of protein is 1.0 - 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram per day. Multiply your weight in pounds by 0.45 - 0.56 for your requirement.
The RDA of protein is 1.5 - 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram per day. Multiply your weight in pounds by 0.68 - 0.90 for your requirement.
The RDA of protein is 1.2 - 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram per day. Multiply your weight in pounds by 0.56 - 0.68 for your requirement.
The RDA of protein is 1.5 - 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram per day. Multiply your weight in pounds by 0.68 - 0.90 for your requirement.
The RDA of protein is 1.5 - 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram per day. Multiply your weight in pounds by 0.68 - 0.90 for your requirement.
"These laboratory tests, albumin and pre-albumin, although probable indicators of inflammation, do not specifically indicate malnutrition"
"Studies have found that more than 60% of newly hospitalized geriatric patients may present with protein-energy malnutrition or be at risk of malnutrition."
"recent focus has been on an appropriate nutrition-focused physical examination and on the patient’s history for diagnosing malnutrition"
The DASH diet is a healthy eating pattern that has been shown to improve insulin resistance and lower blood sugar.
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People with kidney issues still require the same amount of protein intake for normal body requirements as people with healthy kidneys.
The senior population with advanced kidney disease are high risk for developing sarcopenia.
Dialysis patients require more protein intake than people with later stages of kidney disease.
I have worked in public safety and service for more than 22 years. My career started in 1999, when I joined my local, rural county, volunteer fire department, Station 5, in Northeast Georgia. Shortly after joining, I was voted into the position of Training Officer. Not realizing it at the time but my colleagues felt I was a natural educator. My next step was as an EMT, and after completing that school and taking the hardest board exam of my career, in early 2001, I joined my local, rural county Emergency Medical Service (EMS), as an Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate (EMT-I).
On the morning of 09/11/2001, when the first plane hit, I was outside the station checking off my ambulance for my shift that day. Filled with pain and the desire to do more, later that year I decided to serve my country in yet another way, so I joined the U.S. Army National Guard. There I continued my education in the medical field and became a Combat Medic / Healthcare Specialist (91w). After graduating from Ft. Sam Houston in January of 2003, I completed a short stretch of Active Duty Service. After about a year, I found my way back to my home town and rejoined my EMS station. Within another year, I pushed on ahead in the field of medicine, yet again and began work on License Practical Nurse (LPN) degree. In 2006, I started working in my local rural hospital as a LPN. However, soon after, for the experience I started as a Women Infant and Children (WIC) nurse in a local rural medical clinic. I didn't know the impact at the time but this is where my education in nutrition began. It wasn't long after this that I was called back to emergency medicine. In mid 2006 I started in a small rural hospital's ER and soon after was invited to work in the ICU at a second small rural hospital.
Before and after my Active Duty stretch in the Army, I was also the Dive Captain of a Search and Recovery Dive Team ran by the Sheriff's Department and the EMS Director. So being true to myself and in the essence of furthering my education on scuba diving safety, in late 2006, I studied under the world renowned Dick Rutkowski at Hyperbarics International, in Key Largo, Florida. There I became certified as an Advanced Diver Medic Technician (DMT-A). This again unknowingly began my preparation for my future in wound care, still yet to come. In early 2007, I moved to Jacksonville, Florida and have been following the path, in wound care, laid before me by unknown hands. Years of practicing, teaching and learning wound care strategies and techniques would pass before I would be drawn back to school again by a chance encounter at a local surgeon's office. I spent almost a decade of intense practice in wound care, holding the most extraordinary positions that a nurse could hold in the field and even unheard of doing so as a LPN. I finally decided I was ready to really teach wound care and it didn't matter to who. I just knew I had to start teaching to anyone and everyone that would listen. There are so many people needlessly suffering with failing wounds across the world and I seemed to have found how to make a difference in almost every patient I treated. So I went back to school and after a couple years of burning both ends of that candle, I earned my Registered Nursing (RN) degree. I continue to work on my BSN and building my wound care education platforms. Soon I will be able to offer Continuing Education Credits in wound care education. Very soon, I am releasing my new smart wound care app called The Wound Guru.
As a Nurse Wound Consultant, working with other nurses and physicians across the State of Florida, I have been the keystone in the treatment of thousands of patients suffering from both acute and chronic non-healing wounds. My approach to wound management is a holistic one and I believe in focusing on the patient and every aspect of the person to thoughtfully and strategically develop a treatment plan that produces consistent positive patient outcomes. Communication with providers for these patients’ needs for basic to advanced care is imperative. A wound care clinician must build a strong team of providers and colleagues of many disciplines to address advanced care needs. Throughout my career as a wound consultant, I have sought out and built a large network of wound care educated physicians and surgeons of all specialties needed to assist patients with necessary procedures that promote the holistic treatment which leads to quicker wound resolution. Wound care is not about dressings alone. In fact, wound dressings are one of the least important factors of wound management yet often viewed as the most important. In my experience, the only constants in people with non-healing wounds are poor nutritional intake and a lack of education regarding themselves and care being provided to them.
When I'm not working, I enjoy being a father and being in nature. My hobbies include sailing, kayaking, scuba diving, hiking, camping and gardening.
I participate in giving back to the community often in both labor and teaching . I endeavor projects such as building wheelchair ramps for home bound people whom can not afford the cost of construction. I assist people with wounds that can not afford wound care supplies or have no insurance to assist, by purchasing supplies from donations received through this program. I hope to be able to reach many more people suffering from chronic and non-healing wounds and decrease the incidence of amputation and needless death.
Join Health To Heal Inc. on our journey in trying to reduce the suffering from chronic and non-healing wounds. As a Non-Profit Charity organization, we need your help to reach out and help people those suffering from chronic wounds. Our Mission is to help to educate the public, clinicians, and providers on proper holistic wound management. In addition to our education role, your support will assist us in providing access to standard of care wound care products and supplies to the indigent, uninsured, and the under-insured people. Effective wound care products can be very expensive and a persons' ability to pay should not define the persons’ ability to heal because they cannot afford supplies. You will also help deliver nutritional supplements to those unable to afford them. Your generous donation will assist clinicians and providers with the educational support they need to be successful and provide the less fortunate with adequate wound dressing supplies and nutritional support. We hope to be at a level soon where we can even assist with doctors visits, diagnostic procedures, and interventional procedures.
I understand that each persons' situation and needs are unique to them. Tell me more about the problems you are having and I will help you develop a plan of treatment to fit your needs. Hopefully together we can achieve your goals.
Jacksonville, Florida 32218, United States
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