In terms of nutrition, tube feeding is divided into nasal tube feeding, gastrostomy tube feeding and jejunostomy tube feeding. Tube-fed diet is a liquid food mixed with various foods, with adequate nutrition and appropriate viscosity, which is easy to pass through the tube.
It is a comprehensive enteral nutrition diet for patients who cannot take food orally. For example, head and neck surgery, esophagogastrostomy, severe coma due to trauma, cerebrovascular accident, burn or oral food can not meet the nutritional needs, tube feeding can be used to achieve the purpose of nutritional supply.
Tube-fed diet is a liquid or semi-liquid diet prepared by stirring various foods at high speed by a blender or a high-speed blender. It is mainly suitable for patients who eat through a catheter, including those who can't eat orally, those who have insufficient or risky oral intake, and those who have dysphagia, including dysphagia or eating obstruction after radiotherapy and chemotherapy for esophageal cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and also suitable for cerebral palsy or critically ill patients. Tube feeding nutrition is a simple and comprehensive feeding method with few complications.
Tube feeding is nasal feeding, which can be divided into nasal feeding or ostomy. Generally speaking, nasal feeding is to input nutrient solution into gastrointestinal tract through catheter to ensure patients get necessary nutrition. Its main target groups are:
1, patients who can't eat through the mouth, such as patients with oral diseases, have oral problems and can't eat through the mouth, so they must be placed under the tube; Patients who are unconscious, unable to open their mouths and anorexia nervosa cannot eat with their mouths, and need to eat through pipes to maintain their nutritional components and treatment needs;
2. Patients who refuse to eat, premature babies or critically ill babies can't eat by mouth, and they need to be supplied with nutrition through nasal feeding tubes.