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 ...

Your doctor may recommend a feeding tube if you have throat cancer and can‘t consume enough nutrients. The length of time may vary depending on the exact reasons for the feeding tube. Every year, over ...

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.

YORK, MAINE — York resident and University of Southern Maine student Emily Rose, 21, is one of millions of Americans who eat through a feeding tube. She has gastroparesis, a condition that affects her ...

Feeding tubes are designed to nourish patients, not deprive them of calories and hasten weight loss. News reports of a feeding tube diet popped up, followed by a slew of TV reports on the new “trend.” ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether or not a person with advanced dementia winds up with a feeding tube inserted down their throat may have more to do with economic concerns than his or her wishes, ...

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 ...

Feeding tubes as a way to lose weight before your wedding? Seriously? I watched the Good Morning America segment yesterday and felt sick to my stomach. It wasn’t the way the doctor inserted the tube ...