Medications Mixing and Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

[kjeanw]

I have a questions regarding medications and mixing of medications.  When giving multiple medications through a nasogastric feeding tube, you must crush and give separately and flush in between to prevent the medications from interacting with each other.  My question is, is there not a risk of them interacting with each other once they all end up in the stomach together?  Is this just much less likely to interact there, but still a possibility? while the feeding tube would be a guarantee to interact with each other if given together?  Also can uncrushed medications ever be given thru a nasogastric feeding tube, such as enteric coated or sustained release?  Or if they can't be crushed then you simply don't give them and try to find an alternative?

[amoLucia]

One thing I personally NEVER did to clogged tubes was to use that long Q-tip thingy. Like all it would do is just push the cloggy material further down the tube and make one BIG junky clog. JMHO