The thought of managing a gastrostomy tube, or G-tube, at home can be scary. This video streamlines the process and offers tips and techniques to aid both the person and the family caregiver managing ...

If you or your child with CF are struggling to achieve or maintain a healthy weight, or if you dread mealtime, tube feeding might be the tool you need to meet your nutritional goals. Parents of ...

The thought of managing a gastrostomy tube, or G-tube, at home can be scary. This video streamlines the process and offers tips and techniques to aid both the person and the family caregiver managing ...

Blenderized Tube Feeding (BTF): A method of enteral feeding that uses blended whole foods instead of commercial formulas. Commercial Formula (CF): Nutritional products specifically designed for ...

Administer medications via the oral route when possible. Determine the enteral feeding tube size (e.g., small bore or large bore), insertion site (e.g., nasal or percutaneous), tip location (e.g ...

Granulation tissue or leaking can usually be fixed by caring for the wound as instructed or changing the feeding schedule. Sometimes surgery is needed to fix a problem at the surgery site. It's normal ...

Tube feeding can be a great way to get the calories and nutrients ... fibrosis care team to make a schedule that works best for you, whether that is between meals, all day or overnight.

A transgastric jejunal tube is an alternative when antireflux surgery fails, or is hazardous or inappropriate. Aims: To review experience of gastrojejunal (G-J) feeding over six years in two regional ...

There is overwhelming evidence that the maintenance of enteral feeding is beneficial in patients in whom oral access has been diminished or lost. Short-term enteral access is usually achieved via naso ...

Gavage feeding is commonly indicated ... depend on the bird size and the total volume of food/medication being delivered. The length of the tube will be determined by the approximate distance ...

Infants born at <29 weeks’ gestation and/or <1250 g at birth and admitted to a participating ... that placement of milk feeds directly into the stomach via a feeding tube without any food anticipation ...