Answer: the correct option is A(increasing the caloric content of the formula)
Explanation:
ENTERAL FEEDING also called tube feeding is a way to provide a person's caloric requirements through a tube placed in the nose, the stomach, or the small intestine.
The use of dietary fibres in enteral formula of very ill patients has proven to be very effective through:
- normalizing intestinal function.
- helping to treat diarrhea and constipation and
- assisting with blood glucose control.
Fibres in enteral feeding formulas doesn't increase the caloric content. This is so because although fibres may contain some calories, the digestive enzymes of human gut CAN NOT break them down. Therefore
(increasing the caloric content of the formula) in a false statement concerning enteral formula wuth fibres.
