The Bombacinos and their son, AJ, have learned a lot the past eight years. "We were thrown into this world of special needs feeding that we never really expected," mother Julie Bombacino says. When AJ ...

A feeding tube, also known as a gavage tube, is used to give nutrition to infants who cannot eat on their own. The feeding tube is normally used in a hospital, but it can be used at home to feed ...

While the importance of enteral nutrition, or feeding patients through a tube, in an intensive care unit is well understood, underfeeding is still common. A practice of a certain amount of feeding per ...

Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

Kendra Kline’s five-year-old son, John Henry, has relied on a feeding tube his entire life. “He has never eaten food by mouth,” she says. Born at just 26 weeks, he needed home oxygen supplies in ...