If you have cancer of the food pipe or cancer of the stomach, and have major surgery to treat this, you are likely to be fed afterwards through a tube into your small bowel. This is so your body can ...

Rachel can’t taste any of the foods she makes, but cooking gives her a connection to her family and friends. This essay is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, featuring stories by and about girls ...

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 ...

They call themselves “tubies” — people with certain medical conditions who accept long-term feeding tubes as the best or only way to nourish themselves. With the feeding tube in place, many resume ...

Feeding tubes deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication directly to a person’s stomach or intestines. A healthcare professional will insert it through the nose, mouth, or abdomen. A person may not ...

My mother has advanced dementia and lives in a nursing home. She is now having problems swallowing her food. I've asked the staff at the home if she can get nourishment through a feeding tube. But ...