What is Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

What is Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition?

Learn about nutritional supplementation through intravenous feeding, nasal or oral feeding tube.
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Parenteral and enteral nutrition

Parenteral nutrition

Feeding intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.

Enteral nutrition

Liquid supplemental nutrition is either taken by mouth or is given via a feeding tube.

Nasal or oral feeding tube a- terminates at, either

  • Stomach (Nasogastric)
  • Duodenum (Nasoduodenal)
  • lenunum (Nasojejunal)

Gastrostomy Tube

A feeding tube that leads through an artificial external opening into the stomach.

Jejunostomy Tube

A feeding tube that leads through an artificial external opening into the small intestine.

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