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As you get used to being home with your feeding tube, this Home Tube Feeding guide will help you and your family understand how to manage your tube feeding. What is tube feeding? Tube feeding is a way of providing nutrition to people who cannot eat and drink enough for a period of time.
The bolus method is a way to send formula through your feeding tube using a catheter syringe. A catheter syringe does not have a needle. It has a hole with a plunger in it. You pull up formula through the hole in the syringe. Then you push the formula into your feeding tube with the plunger.
How you manage your tube feeding at home Syringe Feeding Uses a large syringe to deliver the formula. The formula can be gently pushed into your feeding tube using the syringe plunger or it can flow from the syringe into your feeding tube using gravity. Gravity Feeding
Learn about the different types of feeding tubes and supplies, the proper way to go through the tube feeding process, how to care for your tubing and yourself, and the side effects...
Tube feeding provides total nutrition for people who cannot eat at all or extra nutrition for people who cannot eat enough regular food. The diagram below shows different types of feeding tubes. Your type of tube is highlighted. Naso = nose. Gastro = stomach Jejuno = small intestine Stoma = opening.
You might have home enteral nutrition, also called tube feeding, if you can't eat enough to get the nutrients you need. Types of feeding tubes. Feeding tubes deliver liquid nutrition directly to your stomach or small intestine. Options may include: Feeding tube passed through the nose.
Follow your doctor's instructions for use and care of the feeding tube. Your doctor will: Tell you what tube feeding formula and fluids to put through the tube. Show you how to care for the skin around the tube. Be sure to follow instructions on keeping the area clean.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TUBE FEEDING FOR ADULTS ~ 3 Topics covered in this guide: Types of feeding tube • Nasogastric tube (NG tube) 2 • Nasojejunal tube (NJ tube) 2 • Gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes (e.g. PEG, JEJ, PEG-J) 3 Equipment and administration • Equipment required to start tube feeding 6 • Types of tube feeds 7
formula. these. as. flows. not calories help you. Just protein, feeding used eating . Nasogastric (or NG Tube) The feeding tube passes through the nose, down the throat and esophagus and ends in the stomach. Nasointestinal (or NI Tube)
Learn how to use and live with your feeding tube in this five-part video series with Gunnar Esiason. 1. The First Day Home with Your Feeding Tube. In this video, Gunnar shows how to use different methods for tube feeding. Feeding using either a syringe or a pump are discussed.