Home Enteral Tube Feeding with a Liquid Diet in the Long Term Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Intestinal Failure

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Abstract
A 35-yr-old man, who had spent 10 1/2 of 18 mo. in hospital, required repeated courses of i.v. nutrition (IVN) due to severe inflammatory bowel disease and consequent nutritional failure. He was maintained on a nocturnal pump-fed liquid diet supplementing his daytime oral diet for 5 mo., 4 of which were at home. The cost of such therapy is less than with an elemental diet and there are other advantages. This regime was nutritionally adequate. The need to assess other cheaper liquid diets in patients with intestinal failure is recognized.