Food tasting? Alcohol via PEG?

[KinzaDAF]

I have two questions for those of you who can no longer take food by mouth. Would you be able to taste a food...put it in your mouth and then spit it out? ( I am just trying to think of a way Dad can enjoy in some fashion the foods the rest of us eat, and *especially so during Thanksgiving dinner. ) Can you "have a drink" of an alcoholic beverage ( or even a cup of coffee ) via your PEG tube?

Debbie

 

[GlenBrittle]

Good Questions. I too want to know as I will be there one day.

I am hoping its - you can put anything you want through the tube if its liquified, and then a drop of something good in your mouth for the taste buds.

Imagine those gawd-awful tasting veggies through the tube , and it tastes like Jack Daniels in your mouth.

Oooo ... a B52 down the tube - now that would be the bomb !

Glen

 

[pamnandy]

The alcohol hits hard and fast, just to warn you. Then again, Andy was doing vodka shots......We learned to temper them down a bit. We went to the old standby, his fave vodka/oj, as if he were sipping it. I must say though, we had some great laughs when he did shots in his tube! Oh. And make sure the joy stick is on "attendent, if he is in a power chair....

 

[Ellamay]

Tony is able to take his beer and coffee via his tube. He does take a small sip so he can taste the flavor of it. He now only has about a half a cup or two 60 ml syringes.

 

[wacked]

We've found that food no longer tastes the same. Hubbanero takes his nutrition through the tube and takes food or drink by mouth for entertainment.

 

[KinzaDAF]

Thank you all for your replies. It sounds like Dad *should be able to at least *taste and get at least some enjoyment of food this way. ( I will check to see whether things still taste the same to him, wacked. ) I know I'm going to feel so bad that Dad won't be able to actually *eat the food that he will see the rest of us eating. Letting him taste will help me *and him I hope. I know he liked to have some alcoholic drinks, so maybe now he can still "have a beer" during a football game!

Debbie