{"id":699711,"date":"2026-07-19T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699711\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:11:08","slug":"could-nutrition-drinks-help-crohns-surgery-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699711\/","title":{"rendered":"Could nutrition drinks help Crohn’s surgery patients?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study is under way to see if a liquid nutrition programme can improve the lives of Crohn’s disease patients undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking a clinical trial to see if the diet, known as Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN), could help when taken alongside bowel surgery.<\/p>\n

Working with the University of Birmingham, it is hoped the study will determine whether it can cut complications and improve outcomes.<\/p>\n

John Gault, 34, of Newhaven, has lived with Crohn’s since he was 11 and had surgery at the Royal Sussex County Hospital earlier this year. Beforehand, he followed a programme similar to that being studied, calling it “life changing”.<\/p>\n

Crohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Gault said: “The symptoms that used to dominate so much of my life have reduced significantly, and my health now feels much closer to how it was before I developed Crohn’s.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study is under way to see if a liquid nutrition programme can improve the lives of Crohn’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}