Patent Document ID: 9561207
Application ID: 14795497
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for treating in a human child, adult, or geriatric human, short bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease, said method comprising: administering to the human child, adult, or geriatric human a therapeutically effective amount of a lipid composition which comprises at least one synthetic triglyceride of the following formula I: wherein R 1 , R 2 and R 3 may be identical or different and are each independently selected from H or an acyl group with the proviso that at least two of R 1 , R 2 or R 3 are acyl groups; wherein each of said acyl groups is selected from the group consisting of saturated, mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated fatty acid residues with the proviso that R 2 is a palmitic acid residue; wherein the total palmitic acid residue content is from about 15% to about 55% of the total fatty acid residues in the lipid composition; and wherein at least 30% of the total palmitic acid residues are bonded at the sn-2 position of the triglyceride backbone, so as to thereby treat the human child, adult, or geriatric patient.