How did you conduct your enteral nutrition? As far as I know, it's not common practice to begin a course of enteral feeding for anything other than a few specific circumstances. I've also heard that it decreases the number of bacterial species that the gut houses from thousands to just several hundred; which can have health impacts that we don't yet fully understand. Can you talk more about this?
I used Ensure Plus chocolate with no added fiber. Regular Ensure in the cans has some prebiotic added fiber which was tough on me
EEN is a well-described and effective therapy for Crohn's. Used less in adults, and much less common in North America for whatever reason (awareness is probably kinda low). The trials establishing it happened back in the 1980s IIRC.
Ah; so that was a sort of elemental diet (if you've heard of them) for you. How much credit would you assign to those courses in helping overcome your disease?
Ultimately ideally you only go through the bad phase once. If you can get into remission earlier you have a better chance of durable deep remission where your gut is totally repaired and your chance of the negative flywheel of wound -> bacteria leaking into bloodstream -> tnf inflammation -> bigger wound is minimal.
