Parenteral nutrition, or intravenous feeding, is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion. The person receives a nutritional mix including glucose, salts, amino acids, lipids, vitamins and dietary minerals, and it is called total parenteral nutrition when no significant nutrition is obtained by other routes.
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When is total parenteral nutrition used and how long might someone need it?
UF Health says it is used when someone cannot or should not take feedings or fluids by mouth and may be needed for weeks or months or for life.
UF Health describes total parenteral nutrition as a method of feeding that bypasses the gastrointestinal tract, with a special formula given through a vein that provides most of the nutrients the body needs. It says the method is used when someone cannot or should not receive feedings or fluids by mouth. It also says a person may need it for a short time over weeks or months, or for life, depending on the condition that causes the need. This entry reports that source and offers no medical advice.
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Therapeutic nutritional feeding (parenteral nutrition in severe cases) is standard treatment for kwashiorkor.
Therapeutic nutritional feeding (parenteral nutrition in severe cases) is standard treatment for marasmus.
Parenteral nutrition is standard supportive treatment for short bowel syndrome.
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1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
2. Wikipedia: Parenteral Nutrition
Wikipediahistory section, Intralipid sentence
The first safe fat emulsion, Intralipid, developed by Prof. Arvid Wretlind of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, was made available for clinical use in 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenteral_nutrition, lead section
Parenteral nutrition (PN), or intravenous feeding, is the feeding of nutritional products to a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.
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