What Is a Feeding Tube? A feeding tube is a flexible plastic tube placed into your stomach or bowel to help you get nutrition when you’re unable to eat as well as you need to. Tube feeding, also known ...

Nearly 450,000 Americans with swallowing or digestive problems manage tube feedings -- also called home enteral nutrition -- on their own. Some have temporary feeding tubes, while others leave the ...

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 ...