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Enteral Feeding Guide - How to Tube Feed a Patient?

Are you feeling overwhelmed to administer meals to your loved one through a feeding tube? HPFY has the guidance you need on how to tube feed patients easily.

Tube Feeding: Enteral Nutrition vs. Parenteral Nutrition

The terms enteral and parenteral look and sound alike. In reality, they mean very different things. The major difference lies in the location where the nutrition is processed. Enteral feeding resorts to the liquid food processed by the GI tract. Patients prescribed enteral feeding consume their meals via tube connecting to their stomach or small intestine.

Enteral Feeding: The What, When, and How

Enteral Feeding or tube feeding helps take nutrition via the mouth or a tube directly to the stomach or small intestine. Enteral feeding is used as a supplement. However, often it makes up their total caloric intake. Read more about enteral feed tubes at HPFY.

Learning to Use the Kimberly-Clark Gastrostomy Feeding Tube

Healthy living has become synonymous with healthy eating. The social media, print media, health journals are all full of the super foods we should eat for maintaining good health. It is all doable as long as we have the ability to orally ingest, chew and digest all those nutritious foods. What happens if we can't do that?

Top Five Feeding Tubes of 2023

Tube feeding also known as enteral nutrition is a temporary or permanent method of feeding liquid nutrients through a flexible tube for patients who cannot eat on their own.

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