Abstract
Phenytoin absorption is reportedly significantly altered in the presence of continuously administered enteral feedings, resulting in subtherapeutic serum phenytoin concentrations and loss of seizure control. We administered 500 mg of phenytoin as the suspension to five volunteers who were not receiving enteral feeding, again while they ingested protein hydrolysate enteral feedings hourly, and again during hourly ingestions of meat-base enteral feeding. Serum phenytoin concentrations, measured 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 hours after phenytoin ingestion, were lowest with protein hydrolysate feedings. Mean serum phenytoin concentrations were consistently higher with the meat-base feeding than with the protein hydrolysate formula, although levels did not reach those of the control period. These data are in keeping with our previous observation that it is easier to attain therapeutic serum phenytoin concentrations in patients receiving a meat-base enteral feeding than in those receiving a protein hydrolysate formula.
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