Why is a pareneteral nutrition/infusion therapy necessary?
Your body needs to be supplied with life essential nutrients and fluids on a daily basis
and normally you are supplied with these things in the food you take in.
Parenteral nutrition, so in other words the uptake of nutrition directly into a vein or via
infusion therapy, becomes necessary if food and fluids cannot be consumed normally or
if tube feeding (supplying the body with nutritional solution via a tube that goes directly
into the stomach or intestine) is not possible.
The cause often lies in the underlying illness itself, in the accompanying nutritional
status, and in therapy measures that have already been carried out (e.g. operations,
radiotherapy and chemotherapy).