The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation reports that "G-tubes are the most common type of feeding tube. They are placed surgically or endoscopically directly through the skin and into the stomach." ...

This means feeding tubes don't provide 100 per cent protection against aspiration pneumonia. In some cases, a feeding tube may supply more fluid and nutrition than the patient actually needs.

There are other types of tubes used for long-term needs that go directly into your stomach or small intestine. Talk to your doctor about how long they think your child will need a feeding tube.

Without my feeding tube I would not be alive. My first tube was a NasoJejunal tube (NJ). This tube went through my nose, down through my stomach and into my small intestine.

Girl, 3, burned by her own stomach acid after feeding tube started leaking Tom Herbert Published January 6, 2018 11:01am Updated December 12, 2019 4:46pm Comments ...

The mother-of-two said a feeding tube was inserted during this time, but it was never removed and alleges the tube has caused her pain for the 35 years since. 'Since 1989, I couldn't do things.

Doctors inserted a feeding tube in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stomach on Wednesday, according to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, where he is being treated for a massive stroke.