Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 100 | Hello Rita, must be the season for PEG infections. My wife had hers placed on 9/4 and it became very sore over this past weekend. She started antibiotics yesterday instead of her scheduled start of radiation/chemo. They had mentioned doing an ultrasound but did not do one before sending her home with Augmentin and Bactrim (while in the hospital they gave her an IV with Zosyn). She did not have much oozing until they started trying to loosen up the fitting. She goes back in tomorrow for a follow up and am hoping they do some type of a scan because we are using the PEG for water and the meds but had to stop using it for feeding.
Margaret or Rita, did/do you have an area on the stomach above the PEG that is real hard(maybe an inch above the PEG site). Just wondering if that could be a sign of it not being in the right place, was that a symptom you saw when your PEG was lodged in your abdominal wall?
Thanks, and good luck getting your infection cleared up and starting treatment.
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