A feeding tube, also known as a gavage tube, is used to give nutrition to infants who cannot eat on their own. The feeding tube is normally used in a hospital, but it can be used at home to feed ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

What Is a Feeding Tube? A feeding tube is a flexible plastic tube placed into your stomach or bowel to help you get nutrition when you’re unable to eat as well as you need to. Tube feeding, also known ...

A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...

Brielle Trice has had a feeding tube since she was an infant. — -- When Brielle Trice sits down at the dinner table she gets her own plate and food along with her parents and siblings, but the ...

"Putting a feeding tube in my mother was the worst decision we ever made. I will not make that mistake with my father." The speaker's father had a Living Will stating that he did not want a feeding ...

Feeding tubes are designed to nourish patients, not deprive them of calories and hasten weight loss. News reports of a feeding tube diet popped up, followed by a slew of TV reports on the new “trend.” ...

CLEVELAND, March 30-Surgery or a major infection often leaves patients without an appetite or with difficulty swallowing, and this problem is usually solved by employing a nasogastric tube to ...