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Comparison of absorption of nutrients and secretion of water between oligomeric and polymeric enteral diets in pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Hansjörg Ehrlein  and
Benedikt Haas-Deppe
Hansjörg Ehrlein*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Benedikt Haas-Deppe
Affiliation:
Institute of Physiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
*
*Professor H. J. Ehrlein, fax +49 711 459 3726, email [email protected]
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Abstract

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In patients who require enteric tube-feeding the osmolality of the formulas is assumed to play an important role. There is the dilemma that osmolality increases as the digestibility of formulas is enhanced by means of degradation of the nutrients. Hitherto there have been no reports of whether there are differences in nutrient absorption and water fluxes between iso-osmotic polymeric and hyperosmotic oligomeric diets. We therefore investigated absorption of nutrients and net fluxes of water during perfusion of a 1·5 m jejunal segment with oligomeric, polymeric and commercial oligopeptide diets either in the absence of pancreatic juice or with concomitant infusion of pancreatic enzymes. In the absence of pancreatic juice the absorption rates of the polymeric diet and the commercial oligopeptide diets reached 58·0 and 84·5 % respectively of that of a completely-hydrolysed hyperosmotic oligomeric diet. The concomitant infusion of pancreatic enzymes with the polymeric and oligopeptide diets significantly increased the absorption rates of nutrients and energy. The highest absorption rate of energy occurred with the commercial formula Survimed® (Fresenius, Bad Homburg, Germany), probably due to an optimal composition of the macronutrients. The increase in absorption due to the degradation of nutrients by pancreatic enzymes was associated with an increase in net water secretion and flow-rate, reaching similar values to those with the hyperosmotic oligomeric diet. It may be concluded that iso-osmotic oligopeptide formulas require further pancreatic hydrolysis for optimum absorption. In patients with normal pancreatic secretion, oligopeptide formulas have no advantage over polymeric diets. In patients with reduced pancreatic secretion, either completely-hydrolysed hyperosmotic oligomeric diets or polymeric diets supplemented with pancreatic enzymes are appropriate.

Keywords

Enteral nutritionOsmolalityNutrient hydrolysis
Type
Research Article
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 80 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 545 - 553
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1998

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