All,

A nurse taught me a great trick with tape and keeping the tube taped up.

Put a piece of tape, water proof preferrable, on the skin where you would normally tape the tube to the skin. Then pull the tube up and tape the tube to the tape on the skin. This avoids all irritation and you can use this until the tape on the skill starts to wear out. Worked wonders for me since I had both a feeding tube and a trach at one point.

Jim