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Noninvasive Outpatient Nutritional Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Author(s) -
Neidich Gary,
Schissel Kathleen,
Sharp Harvey L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/0148607185009003350
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , regimen , inflammatory bowel disease , enteral administration , medical nutrition therapy , gastroenterology , outpatient clinic , anthropometry , short bowel syndrome , disease
Twelve courses of outpatient nutritional therapy using a specific defined formula, Precision High Nitrogen Diet, were given orally to nine malnourished patients with active inflammatory bowel disease. The regimen was continued for a 2‐month period on an outpatient basis. Patients had significant increases in weight, height, and nutritional status as evaluated by serum protein and albumin levels and anthropometric measurements of triceps and subscapular skinfold thickness. Patients with no alteration of pharmacologic therapy did not differ significantly from those with increases in pharmacologic therapy in any parameter evaluated. This regimen is an alternative to total parenteral nutrition and nasogastric delivery of defined formula in malnourished patients with active inflammatory bowel disease. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 9: 350–352, 1985)