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Anyone Caring For Someone who Uses A Feeding Tube?

Caregivers | Last Active: Jan 27, 2020 | Replies (38)

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@walisky Hello and welcome to MayoClinicConnect. Here at Connect, we help support and help each other. Have you mentioned this problem with the tube deflating to your husbands doctor? Is your husband seeing a gastroenterologist? Usually these specialists have a specialized nurse who is able to help with feeding tubes. Why don’t you give the office a call to see what they might suggest? Have you already learned how to care for and manage the tube and the stoma? Gee, that’s a lot of questions! See what you can find out in the next day or so. You can also go to the wound and ostomy nurses website. They have a function to help you locate a specialized nurse near you. http://www.wocn.org Let us know how you do! This isn’t an overnight fix, but it will give you some future resources

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Thank you. We brought up the problem with the gastroenterologist and he has ordered a new feeding tube that should not fall out like the balloon type. Can be replaced while he is awake, which is good. Was told that there won't be a long tube with this one so I assume that a tube will be attached with each feeding and then removed. At this point, all that matters is no more 2:30 am emergency room visits.