Hi all, my mom is on this forum as well. She is about 1/2 finished her radiation and chemo for tonsillar carcinoma. She has feeding tube(NG) and on a list for a G-tube(plug as some of you call it? ). Anyway. I am going to stay with her and my dad next week for a few weeks and I got them a really nice blender. She can't stand the smell of the Ensure tube feeds anymore. There are a lot of tube feed cookbooks. Do you all have any suggestions? I think she is wanting savory things more than sweet things. And is still obviously needing to keep on her weight(she doesn't have much to begin with) .
Thanks for your support, in supporting my mom. She is my person, you know? I love her so much.
Hi what’s a NG
Nasogastric tube. Goes up one side of nose and into stomach
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Do you all have any suggestions? I think she is wanting savory things more than sweet things.
Hi. While dieticians will say that only ensures and Fortisips can go into a stomach tube it’s not strictly true. If you get a proper commercial blender like vitamiix you can blend whole meals. But it has to be a heavy duty one so that the blend is fine. An ordinary shop bought one won’t do it
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Hi
A RIG Is a feeding tube that goes straight into the stomch, a PEG is the same thing.
They only have a different name because of the way they are 'fitted'.......
PEG stands for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy - inserted via a telescope down the food pipe. RIG stands for Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy - inserted using X-ray guidance after having barium placed inside the stomach.
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