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.

DETROIT - Alex Callahan was born 13 weeks prematurely and had so many complications, including an aversion to food, that he spent the first three years of his life on a feeding tube. His sister, ...

Enteral nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of medical care for patients unable to meet their nutritional requirements orally. By delivering nutrients directly into the gastrointestinal tract via ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has updated its Practice Alert for feeding tube insertion and created a new Practice Alert covering aspiration prevention practices for tube-fed ...