[Intestinal infections in the course of continuous elemental enteral feeding by way of the jejunum in the infant]. / Infezioni intestinali in corso di alimentazione enterale elementare continua per via digiunale nel lattante.

The authors take an interest in the study of the intestinal infections during continuous enteral elemental feeding by jejunum in infants. They discuss the pathogenesis and indicate the measures in order to prevent that complications. The Authors report 9 cases of infants on whom an enteral (jejunal) elemental feeding was made up: on the basis of their experiences they consider that the occurrence of intestinal infections does not compromise the employing of the enteral feeding in front of other methods of artificial nutrition.