Exclusive Enteral Nutrition {51111266} Record Keys Definition:Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Queue:[ ] Details Initialisation date:2022-01-12 Specification: EEN Meta Information Type:Diet Host: Human Zone:[ ] Notes: [ ]Shared Reference Notes [1.1] [#Inflamatory bowel disease] - Exclusive Enteral Nutrition > reduce microbial diversity > lower SCFA concentrations (including #Butyrate) & reduce #Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, which is usually considered beneficial in IBD. - Responders to EEN showed lower bacterial richness than nonresponders. - EEN > showed a decrease in Shannon diversity with EEN, but this returned to pretreatment levels two months after EEN was stopped, as did decreases in Bifidobacterium, Ruminococcus, and Faecalibacterium. - It is hypothesized that some of these decreases in specific taxa and diversity are simply due to the lack of fibre in EEN.References Notes[ ]