[Pathophysiological substantiation of using fasting-diet therapy in the treatment of certain categories of patients]
Abstract:
It is not advisable to prescribe any types of the diet to patients with acute surgical diseases of the abdominal cavity in the early postoperative period because of membranous digestion disturbances and intestinal motility dysfunction. The fasting of the patients with the normal nutritional status may be based physiologically in such cases till the recovery of digestive function, since it favours significant desensitization, namely a decrease of the number of postoperative complications and creation of functional rest for the intestine.
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