If a patient with gastroparesis is not able to meet his or her nutritional needs orally, what type of enteral feeding recommendations are appropriate?
What will be an ideal response?
• Enteral nutritional support via a gastroduodenal tube or a J-tube to continue feeding the gut and maintaining the integrity of the intestinal lining and immunological function.
• Parenteral nutrition should only be considered if other gastrointestinal problems (e.g. high-output fistulas) exist and enteral nutrition is contraindicated
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