NGT Feeding at Home: Basics for Patient Care and Monitoring
The body has certain basic nutritional requirements that play an important role in maintaining a person’s health and quality of life. Nutritional status involves the body’s shape and health due to dietary intake, nutritional levels, and how the body is using it for normal function and maintenance. When a patient requires enteral nutrition, they gain nutrition directly through the gastrointestinal tract. To receive feeding, there are many routes and methods of which the NG Tube is the most commonly used. In this blog, we will talk about a few important things to consider while providing care during tube feeding at home. Care During Tube Feeding and NGT Feeding at Home The Naso Gastric Tube is generally inserted through a procedure performed by trained medical professionals in a medical center. However, healthcare professionals, such as nurses can provide NGT feeding at home . They may also train caregivers to do the same. This form of feeding may be giving the patient the nutrition the