For nasal feeding tubes, insertion is a rapid procedure that can be done at a hospital bedside. The tube will be lubricated to help slide down your throat, but anesthesia is typically unnecessary.

Feeding tubes deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication directly to a person’s stomach or intestines. A healthcare professional will insert it through the nose, mouth, or abdomen.

John Paul II was getting nutrition through his nose, the Vatican said Wednesday, and Italian media reported he might have an abdominal feeding tube inserted.

After two hospitalizations and a tracheotomy for respiratory difficulties, Pope John Paul II is being fed by a tube inserted though his nose, a Vatican spokesman said Wednesday. (Full story) ...

c. 2005 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY _ Pope John Paul II on Wednesday (March 30) had a plastic feeding tube inserted into his nose, down the back of ...

VATICAN CITY — In another sign of Pope John Paul II's growing frailty, the Vatican said Wednesday that the 84-year-old pontiff was getting nutrition from a tube in his nose and acknowledged his ...

A feeding tube. Weight-obsessed women willing to do anything to get into that strapless wedding dress are resorting to a nasogastric tube diet, which pumps protein nourishment through the nose ...

ROME — Pope John Paul II is receiving added nutrition through a tube in his nose, the Vatican announced yesterday, acknowledging for the first time that the pontiff’s recovery from throat ...

When your baby is in the hospital, medical staff handle inserting the tube into your baby’s nose for feeding. But if your baby needs to go home with a tube, it’s important to learn the ...

ROME – Acknowledging that the pontiff’s recovery has been slow, the Vatican said yesterday that Pope John Paul II is now receiving nutrition through a feeding tube in his nose to give him ...

As the tube moves through the nose or mouth (90% of feeding tubes enter through the nose) to the esophagus into the stomach or small intestine, electromagnetic navigation displays on a computer screen ...