A feeding tube, also known as a gavage tube, is used to give nutrition to infants who cannot eat on their own. The feeding tube is normally used in a hospital, but it can be used at home to feed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 450,000 Americans with swallowing or digestive problems manage tube feedings -- also called home enteral nutrition -- on ...

Hidden beneath her clothing, a feeding tube has helped deliver essential nutrients to Paige Stuntz for the first two years of her life. Born with cleft lip and palate, Paige had difficulty feeding ...

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 ...

As soon as Traci Nagy's 5-year-old son, Lucas, gets home from kindergarten, she slips a small camouflage-colored backpack over his small shoulders before he goes outside to play or tumbles on the ...

A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...

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 ...