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Enternal Feeding / Gastrostomy Tube Feeding (G - Tube)

To support children with certain medical conditions who cannot eat enough food by mouth, to enhance children’s nutrition, and to aid the metabolic demands of the stress of illness such as:

• Congenital heart defects as with ventricular or a trial septal defects or severe Malformations such as; tetralogy or Fallot, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
• Congenital Anomalies of the upper Gastrointestinal Tract such; as Esophageal Atresia, Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Esophageal Duplications, Developmental Obstructive Defects of the stomach such as hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, Gastric atresia, congenital gastricobstruction, and Duodenal Obstruction/atresia, etc.
• Metabolic disorders such as; Adrenal Hypoplasia, Argininosuccinate lyase deficiency, Argininosuccinic Aciduria, etc.
• Neurological Impairment as with Massive Brain Damage. For example Infantile Cerebral Palsy, Anoxia Brain Injury, Brain Tumors, Cerebral Atrophy, Cerebellar Hypoplasia, Cerebral Cavernous Malformation and Head Trauma, etc.
• Genetic syndromes/Chromosomal syndromes causing feeding/eating disorders such as; Alagille Syndrome, Alexander’s Disease,Alfi’s Syndrome, Allan Herdon Dudley Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Antley-bixler Syndrome, Barth Syndrome, Bartter Syndrom, Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, Bohring, Costello Syndrome, Silver-Russel Syndrome, Franceschetti syndrome, Noonan-syndrome, Corneila deLage Syndrome etc. Syndrome related malformations such as heart defect in Down syndrome, choanal atresia in CHARGE-syndrome and many more
• Psychosomatic/psychiatric eating disorders such as infantile anorexia
• Children who suffer from cancer may need ENS during chemotherapy to help prevent them from losing weight.
• Children suffering from renal insufficiency or renal diseases often lack appetite
• Prematurity
• Absent Swallow Reflex, Achalasia, Aspiration
• Craniofacial such as Cervical Lymphangioma, Cleft pallet, etc.
• Some children with Autism

To relieve an obstruction to breathing.  This may be found in the following conditions and more:

• Tracheal/Bronchial Malasia
• Polyps and weak muscles in the trachea
• Inability to clear mucus for the lungs and airway
• Premature births
• Severe breathing conditions
• Tumors such as cystic hygroma
• Severe infection such as epiglottitis or croup
• Subglottic stenosis
• Tracheomalacia
• Vocal cord paralysis
• Laryngeal spasms or injury
• Congenital abnormalities of the airway
• Obstruction of airway
• Treacher Collins
• Pierre Robin Syndromes
• Severe neck or mouth injuries
• Airway burns
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• Chronic pulmonary disease
• Chest wall injury
• Diaphragmdys function
• Paralyzingor weakening chest muscles and diaphragm
• Aspiration
• Fracture of cervical vertebrae
• Spinal cord injury
• Long-termun consciousness or coma
• Centralapnea
• Congenital Central Hypoventilation
• Facial surgery
• Facial burns
• Anaphylaxis

Porta a Catheter, or Port a Cath are often necessary for IV medicines, fluids, taking blood samples,and other IV treatment requirements.  A few conditions may require a port or Cath such as:

• Cancer treatments, Chemotherapy
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Pancreatic Insufficiency
• Chronic Illnesses
• Etc.