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Welcome to the PINNT website.

Imagine being unable to nourish your body from normal food and drink

Instead you have to rely on liquid nutrients being pumped or dripped into your body through a tube which is, literally, your lifeline, and you're not in hospital, you're coping at home.

This site is intended for all nutrition patients and their carers as well as healthcare professionals and the general public and of course, PINNT members, both adults and children.



 

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If you need to know about artificial nutrition therapy (enteral or parenteral) usually self-administered by patients in their own homes, then this is the place.

PINNT stands for Patients on Intravenous and Nasogastric Nutrition Therapy

Our aims are:

to promote greater understanding of the therapies amongst patients, potential
patients and the medical profession.

to provide contact between patients, to try and eliminate some of the problems that come with treatment (particularly when it is carried out at home).

to encourage membership, so that we can provide more services to patients.

Over the years we have not only brought together patients from all over the UK, but also doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals working in the field of artificial nutrition worldwide.

We have regular meetings, regional groups and a special section for younger patients - Half PINNT

Half PINNT is for young people. The specific needs of children receiving artificial nutrition are usually met by their families who do all the caring in isolation. We aim to change that by putting families and their children in touch with one another. To date, Half PINNT has successfully welcomed many families into the PINNT "family" where problems can be shared and experiences exchanged.

We currently have an internal Contact Directory and the Half PINNT team will help families make contact with others in their area or with the same condition.

We believe that despite "life on line" there must be good times and we try to incorporate this with the serious side of all the many difficulties that artificial nutrition can present.


Read the latest stories from the online magazine!

It’s perfectly acceptable to be an individual

The common factor that unites us within PINNT is our need for artificial nutrition. Our members are either receiving it, caring/supporting someone either professionally or personally, working within the field that supplies or manufac.tures the products, supplies or services we receive.read more...

Litre’s catheter occlusion survey

One of LITRE’s projects in 2003 was a survey to access the prevalence of line blockages in Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) catheters and the methods used to try to prevent and resolve the problem. read more . . .

Things the don't tell you at antenatal class...

How many times have you heard a pregnant woman say "I don’t mind whether it’s a boy or a girl as long as it’s healthy"? read more . . .

Disclaimer

PINNT have made all reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy of the information on this site, but can take no responsibility for your use of it. Nor can PINNT take responsibility for anything contained in other linked sites. The purpose of this site is information and education, and is not a substitute for medical advice. No reference to any product or service is intended as a recommendation.

Please note that the materials on this site are intended primarily for the use of persons accessing it from within the UK.

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