Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...

A nasogastric tube goes into your nose and down to your stomach to give you nutrients and hydration if you have difficulty swallowing. The thin, soft tube is flexible and allows food to enter the ...

Enteral nutrition what goes through a tube feeding to replace or supplement oral nutrition. If you cannot get enough nutrition by eating or drinking through your mouth, you may need a feeding tube.

They call themselves “tubies” — people with certain medical conditions who accept long-term feeding tubes as the best or only way to nourish themselves. With the feeding tube in place, many resume ...

Maybe you washed it down with your favorite beverage. About one million adults and children in the U.S. don't have that option because they depend on feeding tubes. That is reality for Kris Erickson's ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Almost a year after the nation watched Terri Schiavo die after being taken off a feeding tube, Minnesota legislators on Tuesday opened a raw debate over how to handle incapacitated ...

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Susan Mitchell about the findings of her study on feeding tube use in U.S. nursing homes. Mitchell found that more than one-third of severely cognitively impaired residents ...

The use of feeding tubes in elderly nursing home patients with severe dementia declined by as much as 50% between 2000 and 2014, reflecting policies that follow recommendations discouraging the ...

With CoapTech, Steven Tropello and Howard Carolan are working on new technology for replacing patients’ feeding tubes. The approach, called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy, or PUG, utilizes a ...

There is no real benefit to using feeding tubes to care for those approaching the end of life. They should be considered only as a last possible option, according to a report from the Royal College of ...