{"id":1187,"date":"2012-01-20T23:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/em-live.dev\/emwp\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:33","slug":"elemental-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/elemental-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Elemental Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is elemental nutrition?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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In an elemental diet, elements have been broken down into small, easy-to-absorb components.<\/p>\n

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What are the benefits of elemental nutrition?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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When a meal is ingested, the body breaks down nutrients into tiny pieces or \u201celements\u201d that may be absorbed. For instance, after eating a meal rich in protein, the body will break down this nutrient into amino acids and peptides. The process of nutrient breakdown and absorption requires a great deal of energy \u2014 ask anyone who has eaten a large meal!<\/p>\n

The critically ill patient typically does not have this energy to spare \u2014 or the little energy they do possess could be better served in healing and repair of the body. Elemental nutrition provides nutrients in small sizes like amino acids for easier and quicker assimilation of nutrients. Elemental nutrition is also better tolerated in patients with gastrointestinal problems, particularly malabsorptive states like inflammatory bowel disease, infectious enteropathies, dietary sensitivities, neoplastic infiltration of the bowel, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, lymphangiectasia, or proventricular dilatation disease in birds.<\/p>\n

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EmerAid nutrition for intensive care and recovery<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The EmerAid System for Intensive Care is a series of partially elemental or semi-elemental diets that provide species-specific nutrition.<\/p>\n