A feeding tube provides nutrition when you can't eat or drink normally. Learn about its types and what it's like to live with one.

Enteral feeding, or tube feeding, provides nutrition and hydration directly to the stomach or intestine when one cannot eat or swallow.

“It destroyed everything in my mouth,” he recollects. “I had a feeding tube, not down my throat but in my stomach, for six months, and the recovery has been a long one.” ...

A feeding tube insertion procedure, which is also called a gastrostomy, is a surgery where a feeding tube is installed in the patient's stomach through an abdominal incision. Feeding tube insertion ...

A feeding tube that could prevent tragedies Guided by sensors, AI and electromagnetic navigation, Envue avoids the dangerous misplacement of feeding tubes in the lungs.

Constant Cravings My feeding tube means I can no longer enjoy the feeling of being sated after a meal. But there are other ways to nourish myself beyond my body.

You can have liquid feeds through your gastrostomy tube for as long as you need them. Nasogastric tube You might have a different type of feeding tube if your swallowing problems are temporary. This ...

A Wisconsin woman is taking legal action after learning a feeding tube was allegedly left inside her body during surgery nearly 35 years ago.

Incorrect medication administration may result in clogged feeding tubes, lower drug efficacy, increased adverse effects, or drug-formula incompatibilities. Do you know appropriate techniques?

To withhold the feeding tube is to intend her death. The governing ethical criteria are that it’s inappropriate to intend someone’s death.

Feeding tubes help thousands suffering from diseases stay alive. One-year-old Ariya Ruffin is one of those thousands, having been born with short bowel syndrome.