Cystic fibrosis patients assisted by a program nutrition therapy: assessment of the use of supplements in patients colonized and non colonized by P. aeruginosa.

OBJECTIVE. To assess the use of dietary supplements used in food consumption, the clinical nutritional status and biochemistry of patients colonized and not colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa participants of a program of home nutritional therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Observational analytic study, carried out with 47 patients, 2-19 years. The nutritional failure was referred to as with nutritional deficit and those in adequate nutritional status and at risk, were considered without nutritional deficit, according to the international consensus. Spirometry was performed with the cutoff point of 80%. The pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy and nutritional supplementation were recorded. RESULTS. In the association between the use of nutritional supplements and cystic fibrosis patients without nutritional deficit found that the proportion of patients taking supplements was statistically lower than among non users, when considering the American Consensus (p = 0.0098). The variable nutritional status was significantly associated with the types of dietary supplements and frequency of supplementation (p = 0.0445 and p = 0.0266, respectively). There was no correlation between the variables: nutritional status and colonization by Pseudomonas aeruginosa on consensus (p = 0.2355). DISCUSSION. Home care programs which provide nutritional and clinical support, and nutritional follow-up of chronic patients such as cystic fibrosis patients should be encouraged in Latin American countries so that the disease might be treated effectively, with reduction of morbidity and frames of disease exacerbation.