The homemade blenderized tube feeding effect on oral and gut microbiome in the children with enteral nutrition

Children's enteral nutrition is supplied by nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes. Diet influences our nutrition intake and interacts with the composition and function of gut microbiota. Recently, homemade blenderized tube feeding has been administrated to such children in addition to ready-made tube feeding. The purpose of this study was to evaluate oral/gut microbial communities in enteral nutrition children with or without receiving homemade blenderized tube feeding. This study analyzed the bacterial composition and the predicted functional genes of six subjects receiving mainly ready-made tube feeding (RTF) and five subjects receiving mostly homemade blenderized tube feeding (HBTF).