Application of tube feeding enteral nutrition in the pediatric digestive system disease / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

The enteral nutrition is a kind of nutritional therapy for the patients who have a complete or partial gastrointestinal function,which is used to meet patients′ needs of energy and nutrition by inputting liquid nutrition for-mulation into gastrointestinal lumen though tubes,to improve patients′ state of nutrition or to achieve other therapeutic purposes. Compare to intravenous nutrition,the enteral nutrition makes every possible of gastrointestinal function and ac-cords with physiology;furthermore the enteral nutrition is cheaper and with fewer complications. Hence the enteral nutri-tion is more and more widely used,which especially plays an important role in the treatment of pediatric digestive sys-tem disease. This review will elaborate situation of application of enteral nutrition in treatment of pediatric digestive sys-tem disease.