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How to take care of your nutrition

12:39 - 10 July , 2023

Enteral nutrition

Definition:

Supply of nutrients through a tube.

Commercial formulas can be:

  • Semi-elemental or oligomeric.
  • Elemental.
  • Modular.
  • Specialized.

Indications:

  • When the total caloric requirement of the patient is not covered orally.
  • When there is malnutrition.
  • Severe dysphagia.
  • Functional digestive tract.

Types of formulas:

  • Commercial.
  • Handmade.

Goal:

Provide nutritional support to patients who cannot eat orally, covering all their nutritional requirements.

Handmade formulas:

They are prepared with natural foods such as natural fruit juices and purees, warm eggs, vegetable oil, rice cereal, oat cereal, calcium caseinate, cornstarch atole, and honey.

Note:
The doctor and/or nutritionist will make the most convenient indications for the patient.

Parental nutrition

Definition:

Supply of nutrients through a vein.

Note:
This type of nutrition is prepared at the ABC Medical Center’s Mixing Center by a specialist chemist. The doctor and/or nutritionist will make the most convenient indications for the patient.

Doctor with stethoscope and on a table fruit and measuring tape
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