NCC--G-Tube Question

[Guest guest]

One more question.....Does anyone know if you can go swimming in a

chlorinated swimming pool, or the ocean if you have a gastrostomy feeding

tube? (The g-tube is not very snug to the skin.)

Thanks,

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[Guest guest]

I don't know about the exact question you posed, but about keeping the skin

healthy , around the tube, and getting it to heal if it won't...

Well here's part of the article or my attempted interpretation of it.

There is a club called the Ostomates. A group of people who all have had a

surgery for substitute routes for elimination.

There is a team of surgeons and a nurse therapist who work together

at the Pottsville Hospital in Pennsylvania. One of the best places to go if

anticipating this type of surgery.

Dismayed by the pain,and slow healing often encountered in stomal patients

and ulceration cases, Mrs. Fisher was highly motivated in her search for a

solution to the problems.

" We believe Pottsville Hospital uses more vitamim E by mouth than any hospital

in the state, and possibly the country, " she says.

" There are several physicians on the staff of Pottsville Hospital prescribing

vitamin E. They don't waste time using small amounts anymore. Twelve hundred

I.U. is the minimum we start with .

some surgeons order 400 I.U. to be given four times a day. And they get

marvelous results!

" In one case, a badly ulcerated stoma was completely healed in seven days-which

is phenomenal considering the deficiencies of the patient, who was in a very

poor state of nutrition. "

Three days after this patient's surgery, which was performed for rectal cancer

with a resultant sigmoid colostomy stoma, the area of the stoma was ulcerating.

The surgeon was dismayed and considered reopening the wound.

" Why don't we see first what we can do with vitamin E, " Mrs. fisher urged.

" Give us three days. " Then she set to work. She treated the stoma and the area

around it every day with vitamin E oil (60 I.U. per gram).

" We practically drowned it in vitamin E oil. And we gave the patient 400 I.U. of

natural vitamin E orally four times a day.

The patient made a fantastic recovery in a week and no further surgery was

necessary. "

There is a lot more but I'm wiped. Bye all,

Terry

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> One more question.....Does anyone know if you can go swimming in a

> chlorinated swimming pool, or the ocean if you have a gastrostomy feeding

> tube? (The g-tube is not very snug to the skin.)

>

> Thanks,

>

>

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