What is enteria nutrition?

enteral nutrition, also called pipe feeding, is a means of providing nutrition and energy for people who cannot eat enough food due to illness. People who require enteral feeding may have reduced appetite or have difficulty swallowing due to pain or illness or injury that prevents swallowing. Enteral nutrition provides these people with a carefully balanced food source that contains all the nutrients they need to remain alive. In the stomach and large intestine, the food is divided into molecules of ingredients and in the small intestine and intestine nutrients are absorbed for distribution throughout the body. A disease or injury that prevents someone from swallowing food can quickly lead to starvation of nutrients or energy. Enteral feeding adds nutrients and energy directly to the stomach, so the chewing and swallowing process is completely bypassed.

This type of nutritional support is unlike parenteral nutrition in which nutrients are provided through an intravenous line inserted into the vein. Parenteral nutrition jE given in cases where the patient cannot spend food because part of his digestive tract is non -functional. Enteral nutrition is given when someone has a functional digestive tract but cannot swallow food.

enteral nutrition can be provided by one of several ways. One of them is the nasogastric feed tube, a long, thin tube placed in the nose and fed nasal passage to the esophagus and stomach. Other types of nasal tube tubes include the nasal tubes and the nasimal tubes. Each tube is brought to a different location in the small intestine: the side -sewn tube draws into the duodenum and the nasoya tube feeds on the Junum. The type of tube used nasal feed depends on what the patient is able to tolerate and whether it has any digestive diseases such as esophageal reflux.

nasal feed tubes are used preferably if enteral feeding is short. If the patient requires long -termEnteral nutrition is more likely to use the gastrostomy tube. This tube provides direct access to the stomach using surgically formed holes in the abdomen called a stoma. When the tube is placed directly in the stomach, the tube is gastrostomy; If the tube is located directly in the Junum, it is called Jejunostomia. These tubes require special care to ensure that the stoma does not attack.