Parenteral and enteral nutrition - A post-surgical requirement in intestinal surgeries in dogs

Intussusception is telescoping of intestinal segment seen in young dogs under one year of age, when the nutritional requirement for growth is at its peak and as a sequele to enteritis of various origin. It can be easily diagnosed from clinical symptoms like recurrent or sporadic vomiting, bloody mucold diarrhoea and palpable cylindrical or sausage shaped abdominal mass with or without abdominal pain and can be confimred appropriately with ultrasonography. Intussusception can be surgically managed with reduction or resection and anastomosis or both, following prophylactic enteroplication or enteropexy. Therefore in this article the total parentral and entral nutrition is discussed for the animals that show electrolyte imbalance, reduced bowel motility, compromised nutritional status, risk of bacterial translocation and other complications associated with surgery.