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Tube Feeding-Related Diarrhea in Acutely III Patients
Peggi A. Guenter, R.N., M.S.N., C.N.S.N.,
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
R. Gregg Settle, PH.D.
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Shelley Perlmutter, R.D., C.N.S.D.
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paul L. Marino, M.D., PH.D.
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gary A. Desimone, B.A.
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rolando H. Rolandelli, M.D.
Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Acutely ill patients received tube feeding for an average of 15.8 days and, on average, 35% of those days were spent in the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients were prospectively assigned either a fiber-free formula (FFF-OSMOLITE HN, Ross; n=50) or a fiber-supplemented (soy polysaccharide 14.4 g/L) formula (FSF=JEVITY, Ross; n=50). Diarrhea was defined as three or more loose or watery stools per day and occurred in 30% of all patients. Diarrhea developed in 29 (41%) of the 71 patients who received antibiotics during, or within 2 weeks prior to, the feeding period, whereas only 1 (3%) of the 29 patients not receiving antibiotics developed diarrhea (p < 0.005); and this patient developed diarrhea on the day of death. Among the 30 patients with diarrhea, stool Clostridium difficile (CD) toxin was positive in 15 (50%), negative in 11 (37%), and was not measured in four. The mean serum albumin was significantly lower in patients with diarrhea (2.43) than in those without diarrhea (2.75) (p = 0.043). There were no significant differences in age, sex, diagnoses, number of feeding days, and percent ICU days between patients with and without diarrhea. While not statistically significant, patients who received FSF were observed to have a lower incidence of diarrhea, a lower percentage of diarrhea days per total feeding days, and a lower frequency of positive CD toxin assays than patients who received FFF. In this patient population, antibiotic usage was the factor most strongly associated with diarrhea during tube feedings. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 15 :277-280, 1991)
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 15, No. 3,
277-280 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0148607191015003277
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