Via practica 5/2011
Nutritional support in inflamatory bowel disease
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease often suffer from malnutrition and its complications as micronutrient and vitamin deficiency. Options of nutritional support include dietary counseling and support, enteral and parenteral nutrition. Enteral nutrition influences the inflammatory processes, can bring the diseases to remission, treats malnutrition and lacks common side effects of medicaments. Parenteral nutrition has its main role in cases of intestinal failure. Aims of nutritional support are prevention and treatment of malnutrition.
Keywords: malnutrition, nutritional deficiencies, enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition, short bowel syndrom
