Supplements, subcutaneous hydration, infusion of isotonic fluids in patients who already harbour an intravenous line etc.) may be viewed more as a basic support which in some way is always due, rather than a medical therapy.

Anyway, it should be clearly realized that when most scientific societies stated that artificial nutrition-hydration is a medical therapy, they directly legitimated themselves to give such definition and this may be not acknowledged by the relatives who take care of the patient and are equally entitled to define which is the role of nutrition-hydration in some special settings