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1. gj tube continually blocking

   mellie35 replied to mellie35's topic in Pediatric

   hi just wanted to let ya know he had his fundo surgery and is now being fed throught the g-tube. he is home for 1 day now and seems to be doing good. his feeding was changed to bolus and he seems ok with it except for a little bit of gagging at the e...

2. gj tube continually blocking

   mellie35 replied to mellie35's topic in Pediatric

   hi. just wanted to thank you again for your input. i saw him today and he is such an angel. he hardly ever cries even though hes been through so much. i guess the blockage couldve been due to not flushing, but you would think that since they know tha...

3. gj tube continually blocking

   mellie35 replied to mellie35's topic in Pediatric

   well hes had 2 seperate tubes placed since being in the hospital and both got blocked. i am his homecare nurse and there are 2 of us on this case and we never had a problem with blockage b4 these new tubes.he actually went to the hospital to get a ne...

4. gj tube continually blocking

   mellie35 replied to mellie35's topic in Pediatric

   well he is on nutramagen 24k cal for 18 hrs a day and all meds are given through the gtube. (pepcid, reglan and bactrim) they thought the first tube could have been kinked but they tried another one and the same thing happened, the plan now is to do ...

5. gj tube continually blocking

   mellie35 posted a topic in Pediatric

   hi i was just wondering if anyone has had experience with a feeding tube that keeps blocking and they cant figure out why. my pt is a 10 month old boy with multiple congenital anomalies. he has a gj tube and is fed through the j tube. he has been hos...