Gastrostomy Tube Feeding Procedure. It s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. A feeding tube is a device that s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen.
Give yourself liquid food and water through the feeding tube. Gastrostomy tubes are feeding tubes placed through the abdomen into the stomach. Gastrostomy tubes are used to give children formula liquids and medicines.
During the procedure your doctor threads an instrument called an endoscope through your mouth and into your stomach.
A camera on the end of the endoscope allows them to see the stomach lining to. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous. The endoscope is then advanced through your esophagus the food pipe leading from your mouth into your stomach and into your stomach. A gastrostomy tube is placed one of two ways.
