Whether to give fluids or nasal tube feedings through gastric intubation depends on the situation. Fluids are good for patients with burns or in extremely debilitating conditions, and nasal tube feedings are good for patients with severe cerebrovascular disease symptoms.
1. Fluidized food: Patients with severe burns on the cheeks and mouth or in extremely debilitated condition, such as esophageal stenosis and acute gastroenteritis, are suitable for fluidized food. Patients on a liquid diet should maintain a regular diet, regular and quantitative, easy to digest, highly nutritious, light food, such as egg soup, rice porridge and so on.
2. Nasal tube feeding: patients with cerebrovascular disease in coma state usually need nasal tube feeding. Nasal tube feeding, i.e. nasal feeding, refers to the artificial method of placing the nasogastric tube through the nasal cavity and the esophagus into the stomach, and pushing the food into the stomach with a syringe, so as to achieve the purpose of maintaining the patients’ nutritional needs, and this kind of feeding is usually applied to patients with cerebrovascular disease who have serious symptoms.
This feeding method is usually suitable for patients with severe cerebrovascular disease. When relevant food intake methods are needed, family members of patients should actively listen to the advice of medical professionals.