What happens to their digestive routine?
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What is a body-weight ratio? Do you mean BMI? That’s been debunked as an indicator of health ([source](https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/index.html#:~:text=Body%20Mass%20Index%20(BMI)%20is,or%20health%20of%20an%20individual)).
The feeds a patient receives is meant to keep electrolytes, blood sugar, and protein at optimal levels to ensure healing and normal body processes can take place. Weight loss may occur due to periods of lack of nutrition, such as when we’re concerned for aspiration and may stop the feeds temporarily, or if access to deliver the feeds is difficult to obtain, lost for whatever reason, not aligned with patient or family wishes, etc. But we wouldn’t usually goal the patient to lose weight while comatose. They have other issues to deal with than whether they look “bikini ready”.
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