Feeding tube question?????
Question:
I got 2 questions:
1- what time will it takes until my body compose a new stomach?
2- the feeding tube always filled with a large amount of liquids till now since my surgery which was one month ago now... is that normal?
please can you help?
thanks
Answers:
gastrectomy that is what it is called.
You will NOT 'compose' a new stomach and you will have to eat liquids that are easy to digest. You should eat small, frequent meals and you will experience the dumping sydrome where any and everything that you eat will come out the other end (its exactly as the name implies)
Unfortunately, your body can't "compose" a new stomach. Your food digestion and absorption will be altered. Generally, "feeding tubes" are for feeding someone that is unable to eat. If its draining, its a drainage tube and should be full of fluids.
first of all you have a colostomy. Not a feeding tube. Second, your body will not compose a new stomach. It just doesn't happen. A colostomy is used to drain your intestine. So, yes that is normal. It will be like that if or when the colostomy is reversed. You need to keep a back attached to it like I am sure your doctor has shown you.
1. I dont think your body will compose a new stomach. It sounds like you really have to chew you food good since you don't have stomach acid to help you digest your food.
2, Must be bile or some sort...or it might be the food your digesting.
Why don't you ask your doctor.that would be the best help you can have.
I'm sorry about your ordeals.
Your body can't make a new stomach. But your intestines will start to "pouch." That will help slow the digestive route a little.
Your feeding tube -- Are you fed a liquid formula through that tube? Or were you for awhile?
Or is it just being used for drainage?
Sometimes after major gut surgery, the doctors will insert a J-tube into the lower intestines. Special food can be pumped in below the stomach. That allows area to rest while still providing absorbable nutrients.
Then, after oral eating starts again, the J tube is used for drainage -- to help do some of the digestion work. This kind of tube can stay in place for an extended time.
Sometimes after major gut surgery, the doctors put in a drain into the abdominal cavity to remove fluid that builds up after surgery.
These are usually removed as the patient gets better.
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