Methods and channels feeding
Normal feeding by mouth
Should meet the food needs of the patient the full path of any normal eating and drinking whenever possible, eat foods and drinks high nutritional value, complete meals rich in protein and high calories, subsidized snacks and drinks intensive feeding, whether home prepared or canned.
Tube feeding or enteral nutrition (Enteral nutrition)
May be required in some cases resorting to feeding tubes, while difficult for the patient to take enough food and fluids for various reasons, and increasing needs of the calories and nutrients, and by entering the tube to the creditors of a flexible and high-country through the nose and down into the stomach, is of which pay different foods in liquid and blends specific, and may ensure this method to provide the full nutritional needs, despite that the patient can eat a normal fashion with a tube, which is a small country to the extent not hinder the process of swallowing, and notes that the child soon feel better Following the start tube feeding due to receive the body of nutrients adequately.
And the usual that is entered the tube at night before bedtime, on and off during the day and then eating normally, with that most children prefer to keep the tube Bmodah for several days, and should, of course, involve the child in decision-making using the tube as possible, and observed Most young children get used to the presence of the tube within a few days, while others may find the older children and adolescents, the difficulty in adapting to and need for a longer period.
It should be noted that there is another type of pipe being installed in more permanent, so grown surgically, either directly into the stomach in what is the process of colostomy stomach (gastrostomy), or within the intestine known as the Ptfemim designated the fast (jejunostomy), and can use these tubes without the need for the establishment of the clinic.
Non-intestinal feeding (parenteral nutrition)
Or nutrition is digestive, when you can feed tube to provide nutritional needs and fluids to the presence of serious problems with digestion, can in this case given liquid nourishment directly through the injected intravenously, in a method known to nutrition is intestinal or parenteral nutrition, which can cover the entire the food needs of the patient, and without the need to establish the clinic in some cases, and intravenous nutrient consisting of a complex mixture of glucose and protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, and are dealt with continuous intravenous infusion for several hours throughout the day.
And there are many circumstances that require the use of parenteral nutrition, such as a blocked bowel, or diarrhea or vomiting audiences are, or following surgery to the digestive system, or when not being able to eat natural, or could not use the feeding tube because of complications caused by cancer or treatments .
