Explain enteral nutrition, Biology

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Enteral Nutrition  (EN)

By definition, the term  enteral  means  "within or by the way of  the gastrointestinal (GI) tract." As described above, enteral is defined as provision of nutrition support through the gastro-intestinal  (GI) tract or by accessing  the gut. It also refers to feeding into the GI tract  through a  feeding tube. Enteral nutrition (EN) call  be administration  via transoral (oral ingestion  of food), transnasal  (administration of liquid  feeds  through feeding  tube through the nose), or percutaneous transgastric  routes (through stomach), or by a tube into the small  intestine called a  ejunostomy or percutaileous endoscopic  ejunostoniy (PEJ). Hence,  enteral  nutrition  is often called  tube feeding,

 


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