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Restoration and mintenance of nutritionin Crohn's disease: a case study
Author(s) -
James Ruth
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of human nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1365-277X
pISSN - 0952-3871
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-277x.1989.tb00019.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malabsorption , concomitant , parenteral nutrition , crohn's disease , short bowel syndrome , elemental diet , disease , intensive care medicine , intestinal malabsorption , pediatrics , coeliac disease
This case study illustrates the effectiveness of two complementary feeding regimens in facilitating improvement of nutritional status in a young patient with extensive small bowel Crohn's disease with a severe concomitant malabsorption syndrome. It highlights the role of parenteral feeding in short term restorative hyperalimentation and contrasts it with sip feeding using an elemental diet to maintain and improve nutritional status. Also emphasized is the importance of improving nutritional status prior to surgery in order to minimize complications (Mullin et al. , 1980).