Gastrostomy Feeding Procedure. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Gastrostomy is a procedure in which a gastrostomy tube is placed into your stomach for nutritional support.
A gastrostomy tube is placed one of two ways. Gastrostomy tubes are used to give children formula liquids and medicines. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy peg is a surgical procedure for placing a tube for feeding without having to perform an open operation on the abdomen laparotomy.
The gastrostomy tube can be inserted using an endoscope.
A gastrostomy tube g tube is a feeding tube that is placed into the abdomen to provide nutrition or medication to patients with the inability to consume food orally cancers of the oral cavities or esophagus alzheimer s disease stroke and conditions of the brain and nerves that weaken the muscles of the throat and mouth. The endoscope is used to ensure the correct positioning of the peg tube also called a feeding tube in your stomach. Gastrostomy tubes are used to give children formula liquids and medicines. It is used in patients who will be unable to take in food by mouth for a prolonged period of time.
