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.