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Mum Not Eaten Or Drunk For 4 Days
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Mum 84, has recently come home from hospital after fracturing her hip and having a half hip replacement.
She was ok for a week or so but over the past 4 days she is refusing to eat as it makes her feel sick and has only a few sips of juice.
Myself or the nurse cannot get her up, she point blank refuses saying shes too scared and just wants to die anyway. Doctor has sent over anti sickness tablets but she says they dont work.
Really at my witts end, she spends all day lying on the daybed we have for her but when i try to go to bed at night,
as im exhausted, within 2 hours shes shouting for me, so i settle her down, go back to bed and the whole cycle starts again.
Really dont know what to do. How long can she go without food and drink for before she becomes ill again? She had Covid in January also which has taken its toll.
Have spoken to our GP a couple of times who just says if she feels that bad send her back to to hospital, but she refuses to go.
The Nurse comes in most days and says her vital signs are ok.
She was ok for a week or so but over the past 4 days she is refusing to eat as it makes her feel sick and has only a few sips of juice.
Myself or the nurse cannot get her up, she point blank refuses saying shes too scared and just wants to die anyway. Doctor has sent over anti sickness tablets but she says they dont work.
Really at my witts end, she spends all day lying on the daybed we have for her but when i try to go to bed at night,
as im exhausted, within 2 hours shes shouting for me, so i settle her down, go back to bed and the whole cycle starts again.
Really dont know what to do. How long can she go without food and drink for before she becomes ill again? She had Covid in January also which has taken its toll.
Have spoken to our GP a couple of times who just says if she feels that bad send her back to to hospital, but she refuses to go.
The Nurse comes in most days and says her vital signs are ok.
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Leave sweetened fruit juice ice chips in reach, she may not see that as drinking just making her mouth more comfortable, she won't take in enough from a fluid requirement point of view but a few calories might just lift her enough to change her mind about starting to drink
One other strange one, how well does she understand the surgery, does she trust it , and is her pain adequately controlled when she moves, not just when she is sitting or lying still. If when she was first mobilised it was painful she might just be very very scared.
One other strange one, how well does she understand the surgery, does she trust it , and is her pain adequately controlled when she moves, not just when she is sitting or lying still. If when she was first mobilised it was painful she might just be very very scared.
It depends what is causing it... she may need antibiotics, antidepressants, antisickness or better pain relief. But unfortunately, if she has got to the point that her body no longer requires food or fluids, you can't do any more than keep her comfortable.
Yoghurts, jelly, fortifies, are the easiest consistency to eat, just little and often. Good luck x
Yoghurts, jelly, fortifies, are the easiest consistency to eat, just little and often. Good luck x
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