Re: Waking up displaced

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:31:16 +0100, Eivind Kjorstad
<eivindorama@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Wildepad skreiv:
>
>> Feeding, however, is a whole other ballgame. As far as I know, IV bags
>> aren't marked: "1 liter is equivalent to a four-course dinner" or
>> anything else that would be at all helpful to an untrained person. 
>
>They're marked with the concentration, it's not hard to work from that 
>to calories or some other number you're comfortable with.

Knowing that there's 20 ml. of glucose in an IV bag isn't a lot of
help unless you also know how many calories there are in each ml. Got
any diet books handy? I doubt there are many in the typical hospital,
at least not recognizable as such to an untrained person.

There's also the matter of vitamins, minerals, and all the other trace
necessities. 

Keeping someone alive for a month or two might not be much of a
problem, but eventually you'd hit a wall.
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