Ensure Plus Creme Chocolate ( 4 x 125g)

Ensure® Plus Creme is a nutritionally complete, high energy, high protein, creamy style pudding, designed for people with involuntary weight loss, swallowing disorders or those on fluid-restricted diets.

Features

• Complete and balanced nutrition
• Provides 1.4 calories per gram to help gain or maintain a healthy weight
• High protein for tissue maintenance and repair
• Fibre free for those people who are unable to tolerate dietary fibre
• Thick pudding consistency, suitable for people with an impaired swallow
• Clinically lactose and gluten-free
• Ready to use
• Suitable as a supplement with meals or as a snack between meals
• Available in a 125g pots, suitable for people with a poor appetite
• May be used as a texture alternative to nutritional drinks
• Available on the GMS/DPS/LTI* schemes

Presentation

• 4 x 125g single serving pots

Flavours

Available in four delicious flavours to encourage compliance

• Banana
• Chocolate
• Neutral
• Vanilla

Malnutrition and weight loss occur when the body is not getting enough of the nutrients and vitamins it needs to stay healthy and it can develop if a person stops eating properly, cannot eat at all, or if the body needs more nutrients than normal (e.g. due to infection or disease). Malnutrition can occur from some of these condition/infections: Mental health condition/ Depression,Ulcerative colitis,Dementia,Vomiting / diarrhoea,Eating disorder / Anorexia nervosa/ Bulimia, Food Poisoning,Cancer/ Oncology,Cow’s Milk Allergy,Critical Care/ ICU,Cystic Fibrosis,Diabetes,Epilepsy,Failure to thrive/ Faltering growth, Kidney/ Renal Disease,Liver Disease/ Cirrhosis, Malabsorption/ Maldigestion,Malnutrition/Undernutrition, Pre & Post surgery, Respiratory Disease, Swallowing Problems, Dysphasia, Weight Loss in older adults, Would healing,Throat Reflux, Paediatric-Malnutrition, Gastrointestinal (GI) Intolerance, Stroke, Coma ,Bedsores, Phenylketonuria ,Digestive problems, and Dehydration.  Malnutrition can have an impact on both physical and mental health; symptoms include weight loss, tiredness and a lack of energy.

Patients can overcome malnutrition and involuntary weight loss or maintaining nutrients by consulting a nutritionist to determine the level of malnutrition. There are various ways to overcome weight loss. These include nutritional food with additional nutrients, adding snacks to increase nutritional or energy intake, adding extra calories to food. Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) such as Ensure Plus can be a simple way to obtain extra nutrition. In some cases, additional or full nutrition may be given via a feeding tube.

Ensure plus creme is suitable for patients with:

• Disease-related malnutrition
• Dysphagia or swallowing impairment
• Taste fatigue
• Anorexia or poor appetite
• Pre- or post-operative
• Malignant disease
• Fluid restriction or volume intolerance

Tips for Ensure Plus Creme:

• For oral use, Ensure® Plus Creme is best served chilled
• Ensure® Plus Creme neutral can be flavoured with fruit purees or fruit syrups for a new take on an old favourite
• Ensure® Plus Ceme can be used as an accompaniment to desserts to help boost the nutritional content

Contra-Indications:

• Not suitable for children under 1 year of age
• Use with caution in children under 6 years of age
• Not suitable for people with galactosaemia
• Not for parenteral (intravenous) use

REMEMBER TO ALWAYS CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR, DIETITIAN OR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL BEFORE USING ENSURE® PLUS CREME

When compared against Forticreme Complete and Ensure Plus Creme, Nutricrem has:

- up to 24% more calories

- up to 43% more protein

- up to 20% fewer sugars

Most of all, Nutricrem is more price competitive when compared against leading brands.