Enteral and Parenteral nutrition

Question 1

When nG tube feeding is needed?

Answer 1

any sick infant

too ill or too young to feed normally (e.g. resp distress syndrome)

Question 2

Trophic feeding - what is it ? when is it needed?

Answer 2

The practice of feeding minute volumes of enteral feeds in order to stimulate the development of the immature gastrointestinal tract of the preterm infant

If premature babies go for weeks without oral nutrition, normal GI structure and function can be lost despite an anabolic body state.

Question 3

Parenteral nutrition - indications

Answer 3

Post op, trauma, burns, if oral nutrition is poor and necrotising enterocolitis