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A tube-fed liquid formula diet containing dietary fiber increased stool weight in bed-ridden elderly patients
- Source :
- Nutrition. 20:955-960
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2004.
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Abstract
- The number of bedridden elderly patients who need a liquid diet has been increasing. We evaluated the usefulness of a tube-fed liquid diet containing cellulose and oligosaccharide for elderly bedridden patients.Twenty-two elderly bedridden patients were given a liquid diet containing cellulose and lafinose for 4 wk. Parameters associated with blood and stool weight were measured during this period.Stool weight increased by 32.0 g in men and 8.8 g in women at 2 wk and remained at these weights up to 4 wk (P0.05 before and after 2 wk, 3 wk, and 4 wk in men, and P0.05 before and after 3 wk in women). Body weight increased in men (0.5 kg) and women (0.7 kg) 15 d after starting the diet and then remained at these values up to 29 d thereafter, and statistically significant differences were not seen. There were no changes in nutritional parameters such as total protein.No significant changes were observed in the general condition of elderly patients, with the exception of a positive increase in fecal weight, by 30-d supplementation of a liquid diet containing cellulose and lafinose.
- Subjects :
- Dietary Fiber
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Liquid diet
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Oligosaccharides
Gastroenterology
Feces
Enteral Nutrition
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Cellulose
Defecation
Intubation, Gastrointestinal
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Food, Formulated
Nutrition and Dietetics
Chemistry
Middle Aged
humanities
Surgery
Bed-ridden
Female
Dietary fiber
Bed Rest
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08999007
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bd0cac1e00d953b2fce36509d4bb388d