[Enteral therapy of the syndrome of intestinal insufficiency in patients with peritonitis].

Sixty five patients with peritonitis were examined and divided into two groups. The operative intervention in all the patients included transnasal intubation of the small intestine. The basic enteral therapy used in the first group of patients was made with the glucose-saline solution and transition to a balanced polysubstrate mixture "nutrient standard" with the increasing concentration. For the patients of the second group a special program was developed for enteral therapy in which glutamine and pectine were included in the glucose-saline solution as well as nutrient mixtures containing middle chain triglycerides. Active decompression of the small intestine followed by the enteral administration of the nutrient mixtures facilitated quicker correction of the intestinal insufficiency in patients with severe forms of peritonitis.