exclusive enteral nutrition (een) and surgery · 2018-05-03 · boiled lollies or chewing gum (not...
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Exclusive Enteral Nutrition
(EEN) and Surgery
Azar B-Nejad
Senior Dietitian - Gastroenterology, Colorectal
Surgery and Intestinal Failure
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Contents
• What is EEN?
• Who can benefit from EEN?
• When should EEN be used?
• Why should EEN be used?
• How does EEN work?
• What does this mean for my other treatments and
medications?
• A note on “other” diets
What is EEN?
The provision of 100% of a persons nutrition
requirements from a liquid nutrition formula
Can be drank orally or if taste not tolerated, given
via a feeding tube.
The idea is to use as a form of therapy to induce
remission
What is EEN? C’td
Drink only nutrition supplements and water for 6-8 weeks
A Dietitian will calculate the type and number of nutrition
supplements you need to have per day
Can include up to 500ml of clear broth or jelly (not diet).
Boiled lollies or chewing gum (not sugar free).
No other food or fluids other than water
Food reintroduction must be done slowly and under the
supervision of a dietitian. Food reintroduction typically
takes 5-10 days
Most common reasons people refuse EEN are because they
are unwilling to give up food for 6-8 weeks and taste preference
Who can benefit from EEN?
People with crohns disease
Children and adults
People that have been recommended to trial EEN
by their gastroenterologist and are under the
supervision of a dietitian
No evidence for its use in Ulcerative colitis (UC)
When is EEN used?
• Active disease
• Not usually first line therapy in adults
• Help to achieve appropriate weight and BMI
• Pre-operative optimisation
• Obstructive symptoms
• Strictures
• Fistulas
• Malnutrition
Why is EEN used?
• Waist circumference is better linked to
outcomes in IBD than BMI
• Surgical risks associated with BMI too high or too low
• Optimises CRP levels and to some extent Albumin i.e. reduces inflammation
• Eliminates the need for steroids
• Promotes mucosal healing
Why is EEN used? C’td
• Cheap
• Tolerable in most people with dietitian support
• Reduces post-operative:
- anastomotic leaks
- intra abdominal abscess/collections - wound infection and dehiscence
- high output stoma
- recurrence of disease 6 months post op
Heerasing et al., (2017). Aliment Pharmacol Ther45: 660-669
Preoperative optimisation. 35 optimised Vs 32 non-optimised patients
How does EEN work?
Promotes reduced inflammation and healing of the
muscosa by altering the microbiota
Mucosa = The innermost layer of the GI tract
It comes into contact with digested food
How does EEN work?
Microbiota or “GUT flora” = the microbe or bacterium population living in our intestine. • There are 10 billion bacterium cells per tspn of stools. • We have 10 times more bacterium in our GUT than total human body cells Changing the microbiota with EEN causes: o Reduced intestinal permeability o Enhances the GUTs barrier defence o Promotes a reduction in pro-inflammatory proteins
What does this mean for other
treatments and medications? • Often if you are on any steroids, these will be reduced
and stopped
• EEN does not replace other maintenance medications or
medical follow up.
• Often used in conjunction with other medications
Doing a “liquid diet” or “juice diet” does NOT
achieve the same results and often causes harm
Partial EN with a crohns disease exclusion diet • 47 patients (34 children and 13 adults) • Follow up of 12 weeks • 70.6% of patients achieved remission at 6 weeks
(69% of adults and 70.5% of children) • CRP normalised for 70% of patients
A note on “other” diets
Crohns disease exclusion diet
Thank you Questions???