I'm so sad, I don't know what to do with myself. I lost my best friend, my Mom, on Christmas Day. She was only diagnosed this past September, got a feeding tube in November and it was downhill from there. My once beautiful, sweet, independent Mom struggled so much these last few weeks that I...
Thanks for all these suggestions but nothing seems to help my Mom's nausea. Yes, it has gotten a little better with slow continuous feed pump on and off at different times, baby rice cereal and bananas, warm water, meds (Reglan, Zofran, etc). But she just still can't get through a day without...
Thank you all so much. We got some Reglan today, so hopefully we'll get the nausea under control. We're trying the continuous, very slow night feed (Jevity), baby rice cereal and bananas during the day. And as most everyone has said...lots of water (WARM seems to make a difference too). This is...
Thanks for the response. I'm afraid that won't be enough nutrition and/or calories...how did you figure that out? Wonder if that's the trade-off...enough nutrition vs. no nausea?
My mom has had her feeding tube for a few weeks now and is MISERABLE. She has nothing by mouth and is constantly nauseated from the feedings. Just when she starts feeling a little better, it's time for another feeding. We've tried 3-4 different types of formula, continuous feed (for slower...