Can anyone tell me what functional intestinal failure is or if anyone else suffers with it or has any knowledge of it ? Thanks
Well looked this up and it says
Intestinal failure occurs when your intestines can't digest food and absorb the fluids, electrolytes and nutrients essential to live. ... Intestinal failure also may be caused by digestive disorders, such as Crohn's disease
Poor growth or weight loss.
Abdominal bloating.
Loss of appetite.
Dehydration.
If you type in what is functional intestinal failure on google there's lots of info on there. Do you think you may have this problem your self?
My daughter is being investigated for it as been suffering for 3 years now but was told it's not the usual type as she can absorb nutrients but it's causing so much pain and nausea. She is currently being fed with an ng tube but that's not helping her symptoms so going to be moving it down to an nj tube if that doesn't help they want her on tpn which obviously we don't want because of the risks that comes with it. When we've looked it up on the internet it's usually comes up as a secondary illness caused by Crohns chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction disorder and gastroparasis not just on its own so we are a bit stuck for information.
Intestinal failure occurs when a person's intestines can't digest food and absorb the fluids, electrolytes and nutrients essential to life and normal development. Patients must then receive liquid nutrition through a catheter or needle inserted into a vein in the arm, groin, neck or chest.
It may be caused by digestive disorders such as Crohn's disease or chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction syndrome, which causes the bowel to malfunction.