Method of altering composition of nutritional product

Details Method of altering composition of nutritional product Method of altering composition of nutritional product

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A61M 31/00 (2006.01) A61J 15/00 (2006.01) A61M 5/00 (2006.01) A61M 5/14 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2208060

A method is disclosed for modifying a liquid enteral nutritional product during delivery thereof from a supply container to a feeding tube delivering the nutritional product to the gastrointestinal tract of a patient. During enteral tube feeding the nutritional product passes through a formulation chamber, e.g., a drip chamber, having located therein at least one controlled release dosage form unit containing at least one beneficial agent. The beneficial agent may be selected from nutrients, medicaments, probiotics, or diagnostic agents or mixtures thereof, and any such together with a physiologically acceptable marker dye in controlled release dosage form and/or the same or different additional beneficial agent not in controlled release dosage form. Controlled release dosage forms may be of a conventional sustained release type or an osmotically driven delivery device.

Procédé permettant de modifier un produit nutritionnel à administration entérale pendant sa distribution à partir d'un récipient d'alimentation par un tube le conduisant dans les voies digestives du patient. Pendant sa distribution aux voies digestives, le produit nutritionnel passe par une chambre de "préparation", par exemple une chambre à goutte à goutte ou se trouve au moins une unité de forme galénique à libération régulée contenant au moins un agent de traitement. Lesdits agents peuvent être choisis parmi des nutriments, des médicaments, des probiotiques, agents de diagnostic ou leur mélange, associés à un colorant marqueur acceptable sur le plan physiologique et se trouvant ou non sous forme galénique à libération régulée. Les formes galéniques à libération régulée peuvent être du type classique à libération prolongée, ou consister en un dispositif distributeur osmotique.

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