I haven't seen mention of "Fibersource HN" as a tube food. Is anyone else here using that? John's RO rx-d a whole bunch of it, but it seems to be lower calorie than some of the things I see mentioned here. It has 300cal per 250ml can and he can't very many down in a day b/c of nausea (sometimes worse, sometimes not so bad) even with the antinausea meds (Zofran, Reglan, Ativan). Is the high calorie Carnation useful in the tube, or only used for oral intake?

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.

We used ensure, calogen, and scandishake through the tube, and loads of water.

Many like Carnation VHC.

We've been using Jevity 1 cal which was prescribed by the VA. 237 cal per 8 oz can, 10 per day (totally on the tube) which has been perfectly balanced nutrition. When we were on vacation I shipped 80 cans on the plane but we started to run out so we bought some Ensure plus but the sugar content is so high that he started having reactions (whole nother issue)! I had asked our nutritionist about using the Carnation VHC but she said it was very thick consistency and may be difficult to put thru the tube.
I had also read (on another board) about an additive you can buy at GNC called 'Maxx Muscle' I think...they said you mix it with 2 glasses of milk and it's 900 cal and 50 gm of fat...not sure of the rest of the components.

My husband was very very thin before all of his treatments and lost 20 lbs that he has not been able to put back on yet. His tube feedings are 7 cans of Jevity 1.2 per day, but they are changing him to Jevity 1.5. He is adding cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter blended with his Jevity both for bulk as well as for added calories and fat. The nutrisionist I spoke to this week said to add some Olive oil also. She did say that the cream cheese probably was not enough calories for the bulk, but Chris said he likes it.

Karen, that sounds like it might actually be tasty. Thats a great idea to add the cream cheese and peanut butter. It covers the taste and is smooth but at the same time will thicken it up. Great idea!!!!

Peanut butter is high calories. I add about 1/2 cup to my milkshakes. Im out of treatment about 22 months and still havent gained weight no matter what I eat. It seems to take forever to get back on yoru feet from this awful disease.

Karen, the GNC was 1850 calories and it is called Weight Gainer

There is also a Muscle Milk made buy cytosport. It is 300 calories per serving but is mainly for muscle gain. This you just mix 2 scopps of with cold water.

I have one more for you. This one is calledQuick Gainer from Cort-Avert. There are 690 calories in a serving and 50 grams of High- Biological vsalue Premium protien per serving. It's an anti-cvatabolic mass complex. That should about cover it. geez, I actually made it without my normal typos.