Below is a list of common steps that you may be asked to do. In the days before your surgery, tell your healthcare provider about any medicines you take, including herbal supplements and over-the-counter medicines.
You may be asked to stop taking aspirin or other medicines that thin your blood and may increase bleeding. You will be asked to sign a consent form before the procedure. Read the form carefully and ask any questions you have before you sign it. Tell your healthcare provider if you or someone in your family has any history of reaction to anesthesia. On the day and night before surgery, you may be given instructions on when to stop eating and drinking.
Ask your healthcare provider if you should take your regular medicines with a small sip of water. If you are going home after surgery, arrange to have someone drive you home and stay with you during the early recovery period. Talk with your healthcare provider about what will happen during PEG tube placement.
PEG tube placement is usually done under local anesthesia and sedation. You will have an IV intravenous line started in your hand or arm so you can receive fluids and medicines. You may be given medicine for pain and to make you sleepy through your IV. You may also be given antibiotics through your IV.
Before the procedure starts, you will need to remove any dentures. A numbing medicine may be sprayed into your throat to prevent gagging from the endoscope. A mouth guard may also be inserted. The actual procedure takes about 20 minutes.
This is what usually happens during the procedure:. A special balloon or cap holds the PEG tube in place inside your stomach. Your healthcare provider places a small dressing at the new opening. Digestion works the same with a feeding tube as it does when you take food by mouth.
So you get the same nutrition by tube feeding as you would get by mouth. Sometimes the site where the tube passes through your skin will be uncomfortable with some pain for up to one week after the insertion. This may make you reluctant to take deep breaths but it is very important to breathe as normally as possible.
This is because taking shallow breaths may increase your risk of a chest infection. For most people with a PEG feeding tube there are no problems when the tube is inserted and no problems with having the tube. However, the outlook prognosis will depend on the underlying medical condition.
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Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has used all reasonable care in compiling the information but make no warranty as to its accuracy. After that you should clean the site once a day with diluted soap and water and keep the site dry between cleansings.
No special dressing or covering is needed. Specialized liquid nutrition, as well as fluids, are given through the PEG tube. If the PEG tube is placed because of swallowing difficulty e. Although a few PEG patients may continue to eat or drink after the procedure, this is a very important issue to discuss with your physician.
Complications can occur with the PEG placement. Possible complications include pain at the PEG site, leakage of stomach contents around the tube site, and dislodgment or malfunction of the tube. Possible complications include infection of the PEG site, aspiration inhalation of gastric contents into the lungs , bleeding and perforation an unwanted hole in the bowel wall.
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