[Preliminary comparative study on the effects of early enteral supplementation of synbiotics on severely burned patients].

Objective: To investigate the influence of early enteral nutrition with synbiotics on the plasma endotoxin level, the nutritional state, the inflammatory response and the incidence of infectious complications in severely burned patients.

Methods: Randomized double blind and control method was employed im the study. Forty severely burned patients were randomly divided into A and B groups with 20 in each group.