I work in a nursing home, LTC. I have a resident that has a peg tube. It continues to get clogged. We even sent her to the ER to have something done because no-one could flush it. When you try to flush it, it just won't go. We have tried coke, sprite, pepsi, at the doctor's request and it just would not flush. It has a Y port so when you try to force it, we get sprayed. Another nurse that worked in LTC for years, told me it may be the meds we are putting in the tube and to flush with cranberry juice after the meds. The ER doctors manipulated it and said it had a kink in it and he straightened it out. They won't change it and I don't know why. She is only on Osmolite 1.5 at 40cc/hr continous. We are flushing the tube every two hours with 100 cc of water but it keeps getting clogged. I was reading some facts on line and one place said if it had a Y port to use the side port to flush. I mix the meds with warm water and disolve them real good before I flush. She is on trazadone at night and some bp meds during the day. Not a lot of meds. And liquid vitamin supplements, just 15 cc of that. Any suggestions would be great. Could it be that the rate is too slow or too much? The other night right after I flushed her, she started having chest pain and I called the doctor and he said to send her to the ER. After that, I went back to the room and she was projectile vomiting and she vomited a piece of Osmolite in the shape of the tube that looked like about a five inch piece of spaghetti. It was Osmolite and it was very hard to break off. It was soft, not hard like a finger nail, it was just like old dried up spaghetti. I sent it in a bag with the ambulance crew. They sent her right back and said it was nothing and to flush it with a 2 liter pepsi!! I said "my gosh, you are going to blow her up with all that"! So of course I did not. I tried the cranberry juice last night and it was flushing fine this morning when I left. Please tell me your opinions on what could be going on. She has some sort of mass in her lower abdomen, not sure if it's pancreas, gall bladder, colon, but it's in operable. I'll try to find out exactly what that is and get back to you on that one. That could be something to consider also. Thanks for your help. Moo Moo I'm an LPN by the way. Rn's have tried different things also. It's a Kangaroo pump, if that means anything.