AIM To evaluate the clinical significance of early nutrition support in severe head-injured patients.METHODS One hundred and forty cases (GCS≤8) were randomly divided into 5 groups: each one had 28cases with similar data in age, sex, GCS or prognosis (P>0.05, x2= 0.43). Group A were given earlyparenteral nutrition (PN) and enteral nutrition (EN); group B were given early PN and EN after 1 week;group C were given PN only for more than 2 weeks; group D were given early PN only and group E weregiven traditional delayed EN. The clinical nutritional data, the rate of complication and the progrosis wereobserved and statistical comparison (t test and Chi-square test) was made.RESULTS The severe head-injured patients could get nourishment from different ways at early stage.Groups A and B had better outcomes and their clinical data such as blood glucose, blood total goblin, bloodalbumin, lymphocyte amount were superior to that of groups D and E (P0.05, t = 0.98), the rate of complication and the prognosis of patients werebetter than that of the other groups. Group C had similar nutritional data in early stage, but had higher rateof complication and infection after 2 weeks than group A or B ( P