A feeding tube, a long piece of plastic that goes from outside the body directly into the stomach, can provide life-sustaining nutrition to a child who otherwise can't consume enough to survive.

Two sixth-grade students from the Epstein Hillel School in Marblehead, Massachusetts have invented a new “designer” patch for young patients who use a feeding tube due to dysphagia ...

A Milwaukee woman who was placed on life support for two months says a feeding tube was left inside her body for three decades, causing her continuous pain and health complications. Deborah Lowe ...

A Wisconsin lawsuit accuses a hospital of leaving a feeding tube in a woman’s body after an emergency surgery in 1989. Photo by Martha Dominguez via Unsplash For years after an emergency C ...

I JUST FOUND THAT OUT LAST YEAR, 2020 4TH APRIL. THE 17 THAT A FEEDING TUBE WAS INSIDE OF ME. WHAT DID THE DOCTORS SAY AT THAT DISCOVERY? I WAS LIKE, WHAT’S GOING ON? HE SAID, I FOUND A FEEDING ...

A host is wondering how to go about setting the dinner table for a guest who uses a feeding tube to eat. Dear Miss Manners: We have a longtime friend, and now neighbor, who cannot consume food ...

The doctor cautioned that her father might choke if this continued. But what about tube feeding? Both her father’s doctor and speech therapist suggested that a thin plastic tube inserted through ...

A PhD candidate whose research aims to address the challenges faced by families of children with temporary feeding tubes has won The University of Queensland's 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT ...

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 ...

A Flagstaff family has created a nutrition app meant to help people with a feeding tube develop their own approach to a blended diet. Raena and Seth Woods’s daughter has had medical needs since ...

A “dearly loved” retired fireman died in hospital after a feeding tube was mistakenly inserted into his lungs, which was missed by a junior doctor, an inquest heard. Great-grandfather Terry ...