My sister was hospitalized three days ago, with an unexplained fever hovering around 101 and spiking to 104 - 105. She was on TPN for the previous week, because she had stopped being able to eat from feeling so bad. I've mentioned nutrition at the hospital, both to her doctor and others, but they seem very blase. Thank you all so much for your efforts.
Nutrition is important to hospitalized patients and is often overlooked.
However, the gallons of iv fluids she was receiving contain lots of calories in the way of sugar. Of course that is not a balanced diet and should not be kept up for very long, but she should not be starving per se. Calories are going in. I am sure there was a good reason to stop the TPN, but it would not hurt to ask the doctors and nurses what is going on. Wish her luck for me.