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 ...

Two sixth-grade students from the Epstein Hillel School in Marblehead, Massachusetts have invented a new “designer” patch for young patients who use a feeding tube due to dysphagia ...

A 4-year-old Virginia girl, Faith Johnson, died days after her feeding tube was dislodged at her special needs school. Her family says they were not immediately notified and believe the incident ...

A Milwaukee woman who was placed on life support for two months says a feeding tube was left inside her body for three decades, causing her continuous pain and health complications. Deborah Lowe ...

A Wisconsin lawsuit accuses a hospital of leaving a feeding tube in a woman’s body after an emergency surgery in 1989. Photo by Martha Dominguez via Unsplash For years after an emergency C ...

I JUST FOUND THAT OUT LAST YEAR, 2020 4TH APRIL. THE 17 THAT A FEEDING TUBE WAS INSIDE OF ME. WHAT DID THE DOCTORS SAY AT THAT DISCOVERY? I WAS LIKE, WHAT’S GOING ON? HE SAID, I FOUND A FEEDING ...

In his mind, getting a feeding tube meant he was giving up ... We already called ahead to let the ER know you were coming over and ordered Gavin’s feeding port surgery to happen as soon as the ER can ...

A host is wondering how to go about setting the dinner table for a guest who uses a feeding tube to eat. Dear Miss Manners: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food ...

An elderly Hong Kong man has been left in a critical condition after a feeding tube was wrongly placed in his airway in hospital, delivering a liquid laxative into his right lung rather than his ...

Food is usually delivered to the jejunum, while the stomach port allows a caregiver to administer medication, vent air, or drain fluids. Enteral, or tube, feeding is used when a person has ...

An “uncommon” false pH test result and an inaccurate medical image were to blame for a blunder at Queen Elizabeth Hospital involving a patient's feeding tube being inserted into his airway and ...