Purpose
- To let the patients and family members who use tube feeding know the correct method of preparing tube feeding, and then achieve balanced and adequate nutritional needs.
Applicable to
- Patients fed with a nasogastric tube or nasointestinal tube.
- Patients fed by a gastrostomy tube or enterostomy tube.
Mixing method
- Fill an empty cup with about 20-30 cc of boiled water at room temperature. Do not use hot or cold water for mixing.
- Pour the powdered tube feeding product into the cup.
- Use a mixing stick, chopstick or spoon to stir the product into a paste
- Add room temperature or lukewarm boiled water according to the amount of water specified on the meal card. In the case of Protison, add 250 cc of water.
- Use a mixing stick, chopstick or spoon to stir well.
- Mixing finished.