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Feeding Routes
1- Enteral feeding:
a. Oral feeding: patients meet their needs
by consuming oral diets and supplements
b. Tube feeding: provides nutrients using
the gastrointestinal tract (GI)-directly into
the stomach or intestines
Feeding Routes
2- parenteral feeding:
–Used when a patient’s medical condition
prohibits the use of the GI tract to deliver
nutrients.
–Provides nutrients intravenously to patients
without adequate GI function to handle enteral
feedings
–Also called Intravenous feedings
In general, tube feeding or intravenous
feeding should be used when :
1. patients nutrients needs are high
2. or their appetites poor
3. or their medical condition makes it
difficult to meet nutrients need orally.
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