Experience report: home enteral nutrition therapy --promoting the human right to adequate food for people with special dietary needs

• Published in: Demetra: Alimentação, Nutrição e Saúde Nutrição e Saúde, 2014-06, Vol.9 (SI), p.233
• Main Authors: Jansen, Ann Kristine, Silva, Kimielle Cristina, Henriques, Gilberto Simeone, Coimbra, Janete dos Reis, Rodrigues, Maria Tereza Gouveia, Rodrigues, Ana Maria dos Santos, Campos, Suellen Fabiane, Generoso, Simone de Vasconcelos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 2238-913X; 2238-913X
• DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2014.10300

This is an experience report of a project developed by the Working Group on Home Care Enteral Nutrition Therapy of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state. The partners of this project are ten public hospitals and the Municipal Health Department of Belo Horizonte. The aim was to qualify the nutritional home care offered by the Health Unified System (SUS). To date, the results were a routine of hospital discharge of individuals under enteral nutrition, refresher courses on home care enteral therapy to nutritionists from the Family Health Support Center, a handbook for caregivers of patients under home enteral therapy and chemical analysis of macronutrients and minerals from homemade enteral diets prescribed after hospital discharge. The next steps will be the chemical analysis of vitamins of the homemade diet, the design of a technical handbook on home enteral nutrition therapy for primary care professionals and the creation of digital learning material for distance education. Outcomes of the project include an assisted referral ofhospital discharge patients to primary care and better trained and qualified staff in the management and care of home enteral nutrition therapy. Soon, the project will provide low cost and easyto-prepare homemade enteral formulas with known chemical composition, benefiting thousands of individuals and promoting the human right to adequate food for people with special dietary needs. Key words: Food Security and Nutrition. Nutritional Therapy. Enteral Nutrition. Home Care. Health System. Adults.