Food refusal in mentally ill patients and their management tactics

Abstract

The paper presents generalized data on psychopathological symptoms that cause food refusal in mentally ill patients. It systematizes information about methods for preventing and supplying nutrient deficiencies in mentally ill patients who refuse to eat. The paper describes clinical cases of probe feeding in psychiatric inpatients when they refuse eat or cannot take food. It provides evidence for the rationality of describing food refusal in mentally ill people and the methods for symptomatic correction of this condition in the current fundamental guidelines on psychiatry.

Keywords

• mentally ill patients
• food refusal
• symptomatic methods for correction
• probe feeding