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🔇Sensory safe environment🕶️ Provide private, soundproofed, and dimly lit rooms. Reduce smells, sensory overload, and physical contact to minimise post-exertional malaise (PEM). buff.ly/46wv5lD
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Safer Hospital Care for Severe ME - #SevereMEDay 2024 - World ME Alliance
Severe ME Day, held on the 8th of August each year, is a significant occasion for the World ME Alliance and the global community affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).World ME Alliance
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😌Pace, Pace and PACE😌 Prioritise resting. Undisturbed sleep is vital to prevent decline. Eliminate all non-essential interaction, move slowly and quietly around the patient. buff.ly/46wv5lD #MECFS #SevereMEDay
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To create safer environment for people with #SevereME, 🗣️ always allow ADVOCATES 🗣️. Speaking takes immense energy for people with Severe ME and some are unable to speak. Obtain consent to have a family member or advocacy worker to speak on their behalf. #MECFS #SevereMEDay
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✏️EDUCATE healthcare staff🧑⚕️
Provide comprehensive training and up-to-date scientific understanding of ME. Discredited treatments CBT and GET are inappropriate.
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People with #SevereME may have acute food intolerances & struggle to swallow or digest. Malnutrition can be fatal. Special diets, flexible meal times, IV hydration & tube feeding in adjusted feeding positions can all be life saving. Safer hospital care is possible. #SevereMEDay @severeme @mecfs