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Refeeding syndrome

Refeeding syndrome is a potentially serious (and rarely fatal) metabolic complication that can occur when nutrition is reintroduced too rapidly after a period of prolonged malnutrition or starvation.3 It involves shifts in fluids and electrolytes driven by hormonal and metabolic changes (particularly an insulin surge from carbohydrate intake), leading to deficiencies that impair organ function. […]