No sutures used on Bill's PEG. Just a round button (small, about the size of a nickle) that held it in place. While it was healing we used sterile saline solution and a gauze pad to clean around the button. After healing, his shower water mostly did the trick but I would clean under it with the gauze.

Deb

Deb..caregiver to husband, age 63 at diagnosis, former smoker who quit in 1997.
DIAGNOSIS: 6/26/07 SCC right tonsil/BOT T4N0M0
TREATMENT START: 8/9/07 cisplatin/taxol X 7..IMRT twice daily X 31.5.
TREATMENT END: 10/1/07
PEG OUT: 1/08
PORT OUT: 4/09
FOLLOWUP: Now only annual exams. ALL CLEAR!

Passed away 1/7/17 RIP Bill