SPECIALISED ENTERAL NUTRITION FOR ADULT PATIENTS WITH COMPROMISED OR IMPAIRED GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTION
The Peptamen® family of semi-elemental formulas offer complete nutritional support and improved feeding tolerance for adults with special nutritional requirements. This includes patients with conditions such as malabsorption, diarrhoea, and feeding intolerance to standard enteral formulas, delayed gastric emptying, short-bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and pancreatic insufficiency.
Enteral tube feeding intolerance* is estimated to affect 33–38% of adult patients, with clinical manifestations including nausea, vomiting or regurgitation, diarrhoea, abdominal pain or distention, or high residual gastric volumes.1–3
Peptamen®, Peptamen® AF, Peptamen® Vanilla and Peptamen® HN are all supported by clinical evidence. The Peptamen® range is the only family of 100% whey peptide formulas for the early years to adulthood.
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Footnotes and abbreviations:
*There is currently no consensus definition of feeding intolerance.1,3
