Elemental diets.

Elemental diets in the treatment of Crohn's disease.

Does food affect acute inflammatory bowel disease? The role of parenteral nutrition, elemental and exclusion diets.

Comparison of proprietary elemental and whole-protein diets in unconscious patients with head injury.

Forty men who had sustained head injury were randomly assigned to one of five groups to receive 0.2 g nitrogen/kg body weight/day as either an elemental or a whole-protein diet. Three proprietary elemental and two whole-protein diets were compared. The mean daily nitrogen intake was below 0.2 g/kg in all groups, and was significantly lower in the groups receiving elemental compared with whole-p...

Elemental diets role in treatment of high ileostomy output and other gastrointestinal disorders

Elemental diet (ED) has been used widely in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, especially with the management of Crohn's disease. This modality of diets provides all essential nutrients, and contains protein in the form of free amino acids that are theoretically easily absorbed. High output ileostomies are a rare but important complications of stoma formation following bowel surgery. ...

elemental diets role in treatment of high ileostomy output and other gastrointestinal disorders

elemental diets have been used widely in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, especially with the management of crohn's disease. this modality of diets provide all essential nutrients, and contain protein in the form of free amino acids that are theoretically easily absorbed. a high output ileostomy is a rare complication of surgery that is difficult to treat. treatments include anti-di...