"The feeding tube was left inside for 35 years… that’s my whole life," she said, bursting into tears. "They took my whole life. I was only 25 years old and I couldn’t have no more kids.

Disclosures NAINR. 2014;14 (3):103-108. Dwell Time for Feeding Tubes Currently most feeding tubes come with a manufacturer's recommendation for the maximum dwell time of a feeding tube.

PEG tubes, commonly referred to as feeding tubes, are small, flexible, hollow tubes inserted through an opening made in the abdominal wall and into the stomach to allow temporary or permanent ...

Post-pyloric Placement: The positioning of a feeding tube beyond the stomach, typically into the duodenum or jejunum, to facilitate more direct nutrient delivery.

My stomach was constantly swelling." Still looking for answers, last April she says her doctor found the problem -- a feeding tube, from her procedure in 1989, still inside of her.

As the tube moves through the nose or mouth (90% of feeding tubes enter through the nose) to the esophagus into the stomach or small intestine, electromagnetic navigation displays on a computer screen ...