Luminoah aims to change this with a reinvented tube-feeding device that’s more portable, discreet and easy to use, and it has raised $6 million to bring its design to market.

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 ...

In the meantime, "feeding tubes are just another way to get food and fluid hydration into the body," says Traci Nagy, founder and executive director of the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, a non ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Learn about how to prepare for a feeding tube ...

Finally, the nutrients and liquids provided through the tube must be adequate. This is the job of the nutritionist, who should add a “wound healing factor” to the feeding prescription, which ...

Nearly 450,000 Americans with swallowing or digestive problems manage tube feedings -- also called home enteral nutrition -- on their own. Some have temporary feeding tubes, while others leave the ...

Tube feeding for nutrition during recovery. A patient who has a short-term eating problem likely to eventually resolve, such as someone recovering from a surgery, brain injury or stroke, may ...

Another advantage of enteral feeding tubes is that they provide convenient access to the GI tract; therefore, these devices are frequently used for medication administration in patients who cannot ...

Doctors on Wednesday implanted a feeding tube in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stomach, said a statement from Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, where he is being treated for a massive stroke ...

When the tube was removed in October 2003, her parents and two siblings frantically sought intervention from Gov Jeb. Bush to stop her slow starvation.