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sometimes, patients in hospital have to be fed by injecting liquid food directly into their blood vessels known as veins. this is called intravenous feeding. it happens when there is a problem with a persons digestive system.

1. Find out some other examples of when a person might need to be fed his way.

2. Intravenous feeding has to provide a balance of nutrients.

a. What do you think intravenous food contains?

b. Why does the intravenous fluid contain only soluble food?

c. What parts of the intravenous food provide a patient with energy?

3. Doctors can use the intravenous feeding method t get other things into patients boby. write down one example.

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