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 tube ...

A nasogastric tube goes into your nose and down to your stomach to give you nutrients and hydration if you have difficulty swallowing. The thin, soft tube is flexible and allows food to enter the ...

Brielle Trice has had a feeding tube since she was an infant. — -- When Brielle Trice sits down at the dinner table she gets her own plate and food along with her parents and siblings, but the ...

Maybe you washed it down with your favorite beverage. About one million adults and children in the U.S. don't have that option because they depend on feeding tubes. That is reality for Kris Erickson's ...

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Susan Mitchell about the findings of her study on feeding tube use in U.S. nursing homes. Mitchell found that more than one-third of severely cognitively impaired residents ...

The use of feeding tubes in elderly nursing home patients with severe dementia declined by as much as 50% between 2000 and 2014, reflecting policies that follow recommendations discouraging the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Whether or not a person with advanced dementia winds up with a feeding tube inserted down their throat may have more to do with economic concerns than his or her wishes, ...

ST. PAUL -- Almost a year after the nation watched Terri Schiavo die after being taken off a feeding tube, Minnesota legislators on Tuesday opened a raw debate over how to handle incapacitated ...

Studies have failed to show the benefits of using feeding tubes in patients with dementia, and expert opinions have increasingly been against the practice. Following that trend, a study in JAMA showed ...

There is no real benefit to using feeding tubes to care for those approaching the end of life. They should be considered only as a last possible option, according to a report from the Royal College of ...