Gastrostomy Feeding Procedure. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Gastrostomy tubes are used to give children formula liquids and medicines.
During the procedure a physician places an endoscope a long thin flexible instrument about 1 2 inch in diameter into your mouth. Gastrostomy is a procedure in which a gastrostomy tube is placed into your stomach for nutritional support. A gastrostomy feeding tube or peg as you may hear it referred to is a small feeding tube which is inserted directly into the stomach so that you can receive feed fluid and medication without swallowing.
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy peg is a surgical procedure for placing a tube for feeding without having to perform an open operation on the abdomen laparotomy.
1 percutaneously and 2 surgically. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. It will provide you with a safe and long term method of obtaining nutrition. The gastrostomy tube can be inserted using x rays to place the feeding tube into the stomach.
