Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | Michelle, I am answering this question but I've recently become aware that PEG tubes vary in width and so in what they will accomodate easily I suspect. So someone else's answers may not be right for your husband.
I put all sorts of juices down my PEG--the only caution being that they have to not have any substantial pulp or be very thick or that can end up blocking the tube. I have also poured lots of green tea down my tube.
Back when my stricture was bad and I couldn't swallow at all, I would every day flush down the tube some V8 juice and some other kind of juice (Bolthouse Farms makes a blueberry/blackberry juice "smoothie" that is thin enough to use which I liked). I swear those juices made me feel better and as though I had more energy than when I was just using the jevity formula alone. Might have just been psychological though.
Nelie
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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