Nutrition plays a vital role in the healing of wounds. Eating enough calories, protein, vitamins and minerals helps with healing well, and quickly. Good nutritiion can also help avoid or limit infection, and decrease weight and muscle loss. Our dietitian will help patients get the nutrition they need. All Burn patients > 10% require full nutritional assessment in addition to jaw and facial injuries and multisystem Trauma.

Getting enough nutrition after traumatic injury can be challenging. Sometimes it is not possible to meet nutrition needs by eating alone. In these cases, a feeding tube is used to deliver nutrition in liquid form. The dietitian will work with you and your family to make sure you get enough nutrition for healing and recovery.