Nasogastric feeding is not a disease, it is a treatment. Nasogastric feeding is indicated for severe cerebrovascular patients (those with dysphagia, choking on drinking water) and patients who are comatose or have difficulty swallowing.
Nasogastric feeding refers to the provision of a nutrient-rich fluid diet or elemental diet for enteral nutrition through a nasal feeding tube to patients who are comatose, have gastrointestinal disorders, esophageal stenosis, and cranio-cerebral trauma and who are unable to eat orally, to ensure that the patient consumes adequate protein and calories, and to protect the intestinal tract from the secondary injuries associated with prolonged absenteeism. Therapeutic drugs can also be injected nasally.
Generally, doctors will recommend nasal feeding to those who cannot eat by mouth (such as coma, oral cancer, cerebrovascular disease, etc.), those who have difficulty in swallowing (such as esophageal cancer, etc.), and those who have eating disorders (such as anorexia, etc.). Nasal feeding is not suitable for patients who have upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, digestive perforation, esophageal fundoplication varices, esophageal obstruction, and those who have been operated with a part of esophagus.
Whether a patient needs nasal feeding needs to be judged by the doctor according to the patient’s specific situation.