Nutrition in Patients with Head Trauma

The need of energy increases by 40% in patients with a head trauma, when compared to people who are living a normal\udlife. This ratio reaches to 200% in some cases. It is important to give a nutrition support which can satisfy the energy need\udresulted from the hypermetabolic and hypercatabolic states and that is enough to help to fix the immunologic state and\udachieve a better result in healing the injury. When oral nutrition is not possible in the patient with a head trauma, their\udenergy need is satisfied through enteral and parenteral nutrition. Though parenteral nutrition had held an important role\udin feeding patients with head trauma, enteral nutrition is applied much more widely today. Enteral and parenteral\udnutrition both has their own advantages and disadvantages. In the clinical and laboratory studies that had been held, it\udwas found that enteral nutrition improved the systemic immunity, decreased the incidence of the major infectious\udcomplications, decreased the metabolic response to trauma, protected the intestinal mucosa, and protected the ecologic\udbalance of the microflora. In this article, it is investigated through the importance of the feeding in patients with a head\udtrauma and reasons to chose enteral nutritio