Tips for Dining Out

Follow these tips to navigate eating out if you have specialized nutrition needs due to gastrointestinal diseases.

Travel Letters

Traveling of any kind requires preparation and planning for the unexpected. This is especially true of patients traveling with nutrition support—they must always ensure that they can continue therapy without interruption.

Home Enteral Nutrition at Option Care Health

New patients have many questions and concerns when they begin an EN regimen at home. For Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy patients, Option Care Health’s Registered Dietitians can work with you and your prescriber to determine the best formula for your clinical condition and your individual needs.

Adjusting to Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy

Being told you or your loved one needs a feeding tube can be overwhelming. The fear of the unknown can be scary with all the equipment, supplies, and new terminology. Embrace the “new normal” of Home Enteral Nutrition Therapy and see the therapy for the incredible benefit it provides with these tips.

Additional Resources

  • General and Financial Assistance
  • Bleeding Disorders Infusion
  • Heart Failure Infusion
  • Immunoglobulin Infusion
  • Nutrition Support Infusion

General and Financial Assistance Resources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov
800.232.4636

National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov
301.496.4000

Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com

Patient Services, Inc.
www.patientservicesinc.org
800.366.7741

Patient Advocate Foundation
www.patientadvocate.org
800.532.5274

First Hand Foundation
www.firsthandfoundation.org
816.201.1569

Family Relief Fund
www.familyrelieffund.org
800.856.5712

National Center for Medical Home Implementation
(American Academy of Pediatrics)
www.medicalhomeinfo.org
847.434.4000

*Savings due to financial assistance programs referenced may not be available or applicable to all patients.

Bleeding Disorders Infusion Resources

National Hemophilia Foundation
www.hemophilia.org
800.424.2634

LA Kelley Communications, Inc.
www.kelleycom.com
978.352.­7657

Hemophilia Federation of America
www.hemophiliafed.org
800.­230.­9797

The Coalition for Hemophilia B
http://hemob.org
212.520.8272

Hemophilia of Georgia
www.hog.org/handbook
770.518.8272

World Federation of Hemophilia
www.wfh.org
514.875.7944

The CDC Division of Blood Disorders
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/blooddisorders/index.html
800.232.4636

Heart Failure Infusion Resources

American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
www.aahfn.com
888.452.2436

American Heart Association
www.americanheart.org
800.­242.8721

Heart Failure Online
www.heartfailure.org

Heart Failure Society of America
www.hfsa.org
301.312.­8635

Heart Rhythm Society
www.hrsonline.org
202.464.­3400

Immunoglobulin Infusion Resources

GBS/CIDP Foundation International
http://www.gbs-­cidp.org
610.667.­0131
866.­224.3301

Immune Deficiency Foundation
www.primaryimmune.org
800.296.­4433

Nutrition Support Infusion Resources

Oley Foundation
800.­776.­OLEY

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
http://eatright.org
800.­877.­1600

American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN)
www.nutritioncare.org
301.587.6315

American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
www.gastro.org
301.654.2055

Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc. (AGMD)
www.agmd-­gimotility.org
781.275.1300

Celiac Disease Foundation
www.celiac.org
818.716.1513

Celiac Support Association
www.csaceliacs.org
877.272.­4272

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
800.­227.­2345

Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
www.ccfa.org
800.­932.­2423

Digestive Disease National Coalition (DDNC)
www.ddnc.org
202.544.7497

Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation
www.feedingtubeawareness.org

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive and Kidney Disease
www.niddk.nih.gov/
301.496.­3583

Short Bowel Syndrome Foundation
www.shortbowelfoundation.org
402.525.5784