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Enteral nutrition by nasojejunal tube in hyperemesis gravidarum
C B Pearce1, J Collett, P M Goggin
1Department of Gastroenterology, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK.
Clinical Nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|September 6, 2001
Abstract:
We describe two cases in which self-propelling, blind placed nasojejunal tubes were placed in severe hyperemesis gravidarum. This method provides an alternative to parenteral nutrition and to percutaneous endoscopic tubes, is well tolerated, cost effective and with a low rate of complication. Both mothers were given nutritional support at home, had normal subsequent pregnancies and normal babies.