Acute pancreatitis is acute inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Nutrition has a number of anti-inflammatory effects that could affect outcomes of patients with pancreatitis. Further, it is the most promising nonspecific treatment modality in acute pancreatitis to date. This paper summarizes the best available evidence regarding the use of nutrition with a view of optimising clinical managemen...

BACKGROUND Despite concerted scientific, educational, and congressional calls to increase nutrition coverage in medicine for more than half a century, most graduating medical students report an inadequate quality and quantity of nutrition training. Furthermore, practicing physicians report a lack of confidence and related proficiency in nutrition counseling skills because of inadequate training...

The Cleveland Clinic institutional guidelines for the management of intestinal failure, including long-term or home parenteral nutrition and related complications, intestinal rehabilitation, and small bowel transplantation, were reviewed. PubMed was searched for relevant articles. The search was performed in November 2008; keywords used were home parenteral nutrition, short bowel syndrome, inte...

2013;26(1) S Afr J Clin Nutr Wiles NL, PhD, RD(SA) Lecturer, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of KwaZulu-Natal Green JM, PhD Senior Research Associate, Rural Resource Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal Veldman FJ, PhD Associate Professor, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of KwaZulu-Natal Correspondence to: Nicky Wiles, e-mail: [email protected]

Introduction Establishing nutrition support is a priority in the management of the acutely unwell patient. Administration of proprofol by infusion is commonly used for sedation. This can significantly contribute to the total calorific input due to the lipid content. We investigated the total calorific input received in a cohort of patients in the first 7 days of nutrition support during their c...

Artificial nutrition (AN) is necessary to meet the nutritional requirements of critically ill patients at nutrition risk because undernutrition determines a poorer prognosis in these patients. There is debate over which route of delivery of AN provides better outcomes and lesser complications. This review describes the management of parenteral nutrition (PN) in critically ill patients. The firs...

Nutrition knowledge and skills enable individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) to make food choices that optimise metabolic self-management and quality of life. The present study examined the relationship between nutrition knowledge and skills, and nutrient intake in T2DM. A cross-sectional analysis of diabetes-related nutrition knowledge and nutrient intake was conducted in 124 T2DM individuals...