The thought of managing a gastrostomy tube, or G-tube, at home can be scary. This video streamlines the process and offers tips and techniques to aid both the person and the family caregiver managing ...

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After the insertion of the G-tube, you may experience drainage for a couple days. The skin around the tube should heal within one to two weeks. Gently clean the skin around the tube one to three times ...

The weekend is the hardest part of the week. The room smells like ... an oxygen compressor, place a G-tube, soothe a volatile outburst — especially using Beyoncé references (another one of ...

Among the surgeries and treatment Nathaniel needed was getting a tracheostomy tube or trach and an endotracheal tube or ET tube to help with breathing and a gastrostomy tube or g-tube for feeding, ...

Among the surgeries and treatment Nathaniel needed was getting a tracheostomy tube or trach and an endotracheal tube or ET tube to help with breathing and a gastrostomy tube or g-tube for feeding ...

Medication is given through her G-tube. “So when we give her meds, she gets 12 to 14 depending on the day, in the morning and then 12 to 14 at night,” Overfield said. The family also does ...

A New York boy got to go home for the first time nearly two years after his birth. Nathaniel was discharged from Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York on Aug. 20 after a 419-day ...

A New York boy got to go home for the first time nearly two years after his birth. Nathaniel was discharged from Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York on Aug. 20 after a 419-day stay.