[Preparation of and stability studies on enteral modular diets at the Pharmacy Service]

It is generally admitted fact in daily medical practice in some patients who require to be fed artificially, the treatment must always be directed, whenever possible, through "enteral route". There are patients whose nutritional needs cannot adapt to the standardized diets available in the market. In these cases it is necessary to draw up individualized diets for them, planned derived from the modules. It is equally known that there is always a problem to obtain, at the available means in the pharmaceutical services, established modular diets. It is described in this report a method of planning a modular enteral diets, physic-chemically stable and contaminating bacteria free. It is also detailed the election of adequate emulsion and stabilizer and the final concentration of each of these in the diets of different composition quali and quantitatively.