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Gastrostomy tubes are inserted for people that can not get adequate nutrition through oral means. The advantage of a bolus feed is the child does not have to be continuously hooked up to the feed, and can sleep through the night without worrying about missing a feed by the tube leaking.
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What kind of dr puts in feeding tubes?
A feeding tube can be used for bolus or continual feedings. A gastrostomy feeding tube insertion is the placement of a feeding tube through the skin and the stomach wall, directly into the stomach. A feeding tube is very effective when initially placed properly by a trained physician. Depending on the type of feeding tube placed, it is quite possible to learn to replace the tube yourself. Surgery is normally not required to replace the tube. Feeding tubes have a tendency to become clogged or occluded. This can lead to the need for replacement of the tube. Feeding tube clogging can be time consuming, and can prevent nutritional supplementation when clogged and awaiting declogging or replacment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_tube http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007235.htm http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002937.htm
What is bolus tube feeding?
Bolus feeding is an intermittent feeding most similar to eating a periodic meal. It would be like receiving a dose, then waiting a certain number of hours and taking another dose. Common methods of delivery for an intermittent dose may be to fill a large syringe or bag like container hooked up to the feeding tube and just letting it drain in over a short period of time. This is called bolus or gravity feeding. Some people will use the term Bolus to differentiate between gravity feeding methods. A bolus would be if a syringe or small bag were filled with formula and allowed to drain in without restriction. Using a bag with tubing attached would and restricting the flow with the roller clamp can be referred to as a gravity feed. Some may choose the differentiation because a gravity feed can be done slowly by adjusting a roller clamp on the tubing to create a slower flow rate so bolus could refer to fast and gravity to slow. I'm sure there is clinical protocol to say exactly which means which but in my 10 years experience I've heard clinican, doctor, dietitian, and patients use the terms in many differentiating ways.
What is bolus un the stomach?
A bolus is a lump of food
When did Frank Bolus die?
Frank Bolus died in 1939.
When was Frank Bolus born?
Frank Bolus was born in 1864.
When was Brian Bolus born?
Brian Bolus was born in 1934.
When was Harry Bolus born?
Harry Bolus was born in 1834.
When did Harry Bolus die?
Harry Bolus died in 1911.
What is a ball-like masticated lump of food?
The mix of food and saliva made in the mouth is called a bolus.
What kind of food is bolus?
Bolus isn't a specific kind of food. A bolus is a chewed up mass of food that is (generally) on its way from the mouth to the stomach.
Where is the bolus located?
a bolus is a mass of substance, such as a mothfull of food. the food passaing down your esophagus is a "bolus". also medication and other medical procedures are given by bolus, as in iv meds and tube feedings.
What makes bolus?
The teeth are what makes bolus as they mash it up to form small lumps of food. the bolus is also soften by the muccin and made in a spherical shape by the help of tongue and palate this is when the bolus is completed
