Re: Ian's food

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As long as Ian's formula is in a feeding bag that is not continually

opened, you can go for 10 hours. is on continuous feeds for

8 hours during the day & 8 hours at night. We fill his bag up all at

once for each of these feeding sessions. There are times when he has

had a flow error that made his feeding last for a few hours more that

typical, and he has been fine. We live in FL, so temperatures get

pretty hot here. If you are really worried, you can add ice to the

feeding bag. You can also purchase formula in a closed container

system, and this can stay in there for up to 24 hours, believe it or

not. What kind of feeding pump do you have? There are spike sets

you can purchase for some pumps for these closed container systems.

I found this which may be of interest to you:

From this website: http://tristatehealthsystem.client.web-

health.com/web-health/topics/GeneralHealth/generalhealthsub/

generalhealth/nutrition & food/enteral_nutrition.html

How long before it spoils?

Once prepared, refrigerated formula will last up to a couple of

days.

At room temperature, it will go bad in at most a half a day.

Good luck,

Kim C.

On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:03 PM, RSS-Support wrote:

>

> Okay everyone - here's a good question. My poor dear husband is

> exhausted. He has problems with bouts of insomnia as it is - but,

> now that we have to get up in the middle of the night to feed Ian at

> 2 am - he's not been able to get to sleep again. It's been horrible

> for him. The problem is that I've been SO exhausted since we have

> gotten home from Ian's recent illness, I've been sleeping VERY hard

> at night. LOL My dh sais that I don't even move! LOL Anyway, we

> have been giving Ian his Nutren Jr for his ng feeds. From what I

> gather, it can only " stand " for 4 hours at a time - otherwise it

> goes bad. We were originally doing 45 ml for 8 hours - which worked

> perfectly. Now, we have to do 36 ml for 10 hours and we haven't

> started doing that yet because we haven't figured out how to do the

> Nutren in a time that will work. Does that make sense? How long

> can the " formula " really sit in the bag? Any suggestions? What

> happens when we have to do continuous feeds with a G-tube?

> As far as my helping my dh in the middle of the night - I might have

> to sleep in Ian's room because I can't even hear the alarm go off

> while I'm sleeping! We definately have to figure something out!

>

> Thanks in advance for your help.

>

> - H