[tri-med] Re: feeding tube question from a former list member

I feel the same way...
These feeding tubes are really easy to change once you do it once or 
twice.

For those at all interested in the Foley as a G-tube...
Ours has the balloon.  Can't imagine it staying where it is suppose to 
with out one?

Guess we have been lucky...
I have my own system of taping... but it works!

After baths,
I make sure the foley (16French) is dry and then I allow it to move 
back and forth about 1/2 inch or so, to be sure when I tape
it, that the balloon is not right up against the skin...So I allow 
about 1/2 inch of play within the stomach

I do not take the 4x4 and put it around the tubing and the skin...as my 
thought is, and experience is, that if it is too ooz or milk overflow 
occurs ..it just festers and becomes irritated, causing a raw mess.

I take a 4 x 4 and  fold it in quarters, more of a bolster....allowing 
the air to get to the entire tube and skin area...
Tape it with and X and then tape it with and x again...    looking 
something like this    (O is the hole)    O--X--x-------------<   Yep, 
thats about what it looks like  :)
the bolster of 4x4 is under the big X.....

We've never had any type of raw or irritation doing it this way.  I 
alternate the left side to the right...each day...

When Natalia was born, our roomie in the hospital was a child with a 
button that had herniated and was in full blown infection...It so 
disturbed me that I've been careful to never let her g-tube site area 
get infected.

Her opening is as clear and pretty as a pierced ear hole....  :)

Just another way to do it....
ThereseAnn mom to Natalia t13 5 yrs.

On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 05:38 PM, Kathy Hendler wrote:

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> After I had to show the ER doctor how to change the Mic-Key, I decided 
> I
> could do it myself...

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