If you can’t get the liquid form, you must crush your pills. Use the liquid form of your medication if your pharmacy has it.Before you use your feeding tube for medicine: You can take your medications through your GT.

Taking Your Medication Through Your Feeding Tube Use a clean food container for each feeding.Use dishwashing liquid and water to wash the container.Wash out the food container after each use: After you’ve had water, roll the clamp down to turn off and disconnect the food containerĥ.This provides fluids for you and flushes out the tube. When you’re done with the feeding, fill the food container with the amount of water your doctor prescribes.If you choke or have difficulty breathing during a feeding, stop and call your doctor right away. It’s important to sit up or prop your head up while receiving your feeding.Your meal should last 45 minutes to an hour.Open the clamp slowly to adjust the speed of the feeding.

Insert the tip of the tube from your food container into your feeding tube (GT). Slowly open the clamp on your GT to adjust the speed of the feeding.

Call your doctor if you see no stomach content and the length of your tube has changed.

Use a ruler to measure the length from the stoma site to the end of the feeding tube.

If your doctor told you to do this, write down the length of the tube as measured in the hospital. Some patients need to compare the length of the feeding tube at home to what it was in the hospital. Tell your visiting nurse or your doctor if this occurs often.ģ. Inject the stomach content, which contains important minerals, back into the tube.

If you pull back a large amount of fluid, do not give yourself food.

This is stomach content and tells you the tube is in your stomach. You should see some gastric juices (yellow-green fluid).

Attach a 60cc syringe to the end of your feeding tube.

Qfeed for tube feeding