Home Parenteral Nutrition Overview

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The House Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) Program at Boston Children's Medical facility cares for babies, children, and also teenagers with digestive failure that need intravenous (IV) or parenteral nourishment (PN) and also hydration support in your home.

For different factors, the intestines of some children are not able to digest food and also supply the nutrition required to live and expand. PN is an approach of providing this nutrition intravenously via a central or PICC line when a kid can not take food by mouth or by enterally (via a feeding tube). The nutrients bypass the regular gastrointestinal system as well as get in the kid directly through a thin tube put right into a vein.

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