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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Suzanne, I have a few pointers that might help your mom. It could be the wrong size PEG tube. Some PEg users on here have had different sized tubes. Have you asked her doctor about the leakage? Reddness means its probably infected and awfully sore.
When I had my PEg tube, I would put antibiotic cream like bacitracin ointment around the tube site after a shower. The I would cover it with gauze pads. There are specially made gauze pads with a slit 1/2 way thru them and a tiny hole for the tube to fit into.
Watering down the feeding formula will help your mother digest it more easily. I have never heard of Green Machine, dont know what it is at all. Its very very important to give your mother minimum 2500 calorie and 48oz water daily.
Be very careful with supliments, check with the doctor as some do not mix well with chemo.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | |
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