How to live with short bowel syndrome?

Introduction: Absorption of nutrients in short bowel syndrome (SBS) is seriously impaired. The adequate treatment of SBS are parenteral and enteral fluid, electrolyte, nutrient and vitamin substitutions. If more than 80 percent of the small bowel is resected, generally life-long total or supplementary parenteral nutrition is required. A 63 year-old male patient with the hystory of ulcerative colitis and mesalazine therapy since 1986 has been treated several times for entamoeba histolytica and dyspar infection. In 2003 the relapse of ulcerative colitis was treated with olsalazine and parenteral methyprednisolon,…