title: [Ambulatory tube feeding. An alternative to parenteral feeding].
abstract: Nowadays, enteral tube feeding is an alternative to parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. Special tubes and differentiated diets enable a high quality, enteral nutrition, which can be well applied for a number of indications without complications. This tube feeding can also be managed in ambulatory patients with benign or malignant diseases. The education, training and surveillance of these patients is a necessary requirement. Mobility and living habits of the patients are hardly disturbed at all by this regimen. Deficiencies due to the exclusive application of a chemically defined diet need not to be feared.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition
vernacular_title: Ambulante Sondenernährung. Eine Alternative zur parenteralen Ernährung.