Hi - just wondering if any of you have experienced what seems like it might be an infection at the site where the PEG enters the abdomen. John finished treatment over 2 weeks ago and yesterday ( Christmas!) showed me a bump at the edge of his PEG incision. This morning the bump had disappeared but the site itself - all around the PEG - is very red.

I keep taking his temperature and it has risen slowly over the last 24 hours from 36.7 to 38 and has now fallen to 37.4. The doctor stressed that we go to emergency if his temperature ever reached 38 but we held off for an hour to see if more liquid would help bring it down. We do not want to brave the nightmare of the extremely busy ER on Boxing Day evening if at all possible.

He has also had a particularly high level of nasal congestion over the last 2 days.Could they be related somehow?

We will definitely go the hospital first thing tomorrow. If the PEG site is infected, I hope they don't have to remove it because he stopped eating by mouth about 4 weeks ago and is still completely dependent on the tube.

Mary