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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 8 | If there is a clog. Use a syringe full of soda, they told me use ginger ale. If there is a clog then the gravity wouldnt work. Im sure any type of carbonated soda would work. Try using a few syringes of sode pushed thru the tube on a weekly basis to keep it clean. That was what I had been told to do anyway. I was too busy with everything else to remember to flush the tube with soda. Luckily, I never had a clog.
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  | 
