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A place to call home, where you are never alone
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A place to call home, where you are never alone
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G Tubes
Parent Tips Below
Expect the primitive brownish g-tube to be
stitched in place for at least 2-3 weeks to allow the stoma to form. In our
case, the g-tube site oozed for over a year, we had to use split 2x2's with a
little bit of tape to catch the ooze. This worked and caught a lot of the
gunk. It seemed like all of a sudden, about a year or so after the g-tube was
placed, that we no longer needed the split 2x2. In our case, about 2 weeks
after the g-tube surgery, our boy's primitive tube and the sutures around it
began to rotate, the sutures began to cut through his skin, and there was
blood in and around the tube. We promptly took him into the hospital and the
surgeon removed the tube and placed the mic-key button right away. It was
very easy. The mic-key button is incredibly easy to take care of. It
requires changing about once a month and the extension sets last about a
week. We bolus feed and pump feed and we're very happy with the mic-key
button. He also had a fundoplication at the time of the g-tube placement.
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