 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I use Nutren 2.0 in my PEG tube. It's made by Nestle, like VHC, but has 500 calories per 250 ml can and is covered by Medicare. Apparently Medicare considers VHC to not be a tube food.
Nutren is also supposed to be drinkable, but when I previously used it I had to add Nestles Nesquick to it for flavor (Addl 60 calories, so that brought it up to VHC.
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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