What to look for in nasal feeding care

Nasogastric feeding is generally applicable to patients who cannot eat by mouth, and a gastric tube is placed into the stomach through the nasal cavity. Nasogastric feeding care should pay attention to less food and more meals, keep thinner concentration and flush the gastric tube, etc. The details are as follows: 1. Less food and more meals: the gastric tube is thinner, so it is necessary to eat less food and more meals when giving nasal feeding to the patients. When injecting food into the gastric cavity through the gastric tube, the amount of food injected needs to be appropriate, and not too much food can be injected each time, so it is necessary to eat less and more often; 2. Maintaining a thinner consistency: the food will be broken up and diluted each time, because the food is too thick and will easily cause blockage of the gastric tube, especially to the lower end of the gastric tube, which often occurs when the tube is blocked. There are many such cases in the clinic. If the blockage of the gastric tube is serious, it may be necessary to pull out the gastric tube and put it back in again, which will increase the patient’s pain; 3. Flush the gastric tube: the gastric tube needs to be flushed frequently after each food injection to prevent the food from staying in the gastric tube or the viscous food from blocking the gastric tube, so it is necessary to flush it with water frequently; 4. Inject the food slowly: to prevent the food from being injected at too fast a rate, it is necessary to inject the food slowly, otherwise it will easily cause the patient to feel uncomfortable. Slow injection: to prevent the speed of food injection is too fast, need to inject food slowly, otherwise it is easy to cause the patient’s discomfort; 5, reduce the stimulation: to maintain the appropriate temperature of the injected food, because the gastric tube nasogastric feeding, not through the mouth to eat, the patient can not feel the temperature. Therefore, the food should be kept at a reasonable temperature before nasogastric feeding via gastric tube, neither too cold nor too hot, to prevent damage to the stomach.