Nutritional Management of Crohn’s Disease – Full Text

Clare F. Donnellan BSc, MBBS, MRCP, MD, Lee H. Yann MBChB, FRACP, Simon Lal BSc, MBChB, FRCP, PhD

Disclosures

Ther Adv Gastroenterol. 2013;6(3):231-242.

ABSTRACT AND INTRODUCTION

Abstract

Nutritional care and therapy forms an integral part of the management of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). Nutritional deficiencies result from reduced oral intake, malabsorption, medication side effects and systemic inflammation due to active disease. Enteral nutrition has a role in support for the malnourished patient, as well as in primary therapy to induce and maintain remission. The use of parenteral nutrition in CD is mainly limited to the preoperative setting or for patients with intestinal failure, but does not offer any additional advantage over EN in disease control. Dietary modifications, including elimination–reintroduction diets and a low fermentable, oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP) diet may improve symptoms but there are currently no data to suggest that these approaches have any role in the induction or maintenance of remission.

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