Sentences with phrase «long feeding tube»

Your veterinarian will work with you to decide how long a feeding tube is needed.

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Fifteen storage silos were constructed to store the milled semolina and feed a 700ft - long, 6in - diameter pneumatic tube, which can deliver some 62,000 lb of semolina per hour to the production lines.

«A lactation aid consists of a container for the supplement — usually a feeding bottle with an enlarged nipple hole — and a long, thin tube leading from this container.»

You will need a lactation aid, made up of a feeding tube (# 5F, 36» long), and a feeding bottle with expressed breast milk, sugar water, or if necessary, formula, depending on the circumstances.

I took herbal supplements, an unsafe prescription medication, triple - fed (nurse, pump, supplement, repeat) my baby all day long, and used a supplemental nursing system to feed my daughter formula from a tube taped to my breasts.

Medela's Supplemental Nursing System (SNS) is a feeding tube device for giving premature, failure to thrive, impaired or adopted babies long - term supplemental feedings at the breast.

Until the age of 32 to 34 weeks gestational age, most babies are unable to feed by bottle or breast alone, and even when they no longer require total parenteral nutrition or a feeding tube, many require scheduled regular feedings until the age of 37 weeks gestation age.

People who can't swallow can live long and healthy lives being tube fed out of a can.

Research indicates that premature babies fed formula tend to vomit more and continue tube feeding longer than those fed human colostrum and breast milk.

If this is impossible, tube feeding may be necessary, short or long term.

Bacteria, which feed on methane and other noxious chemicals, provide sustenance for three - foot - long hollow tube worms and tiny clams.

The tongue, which the bat stores in its rib cage, appears to be adapted to feed on a particular flower that has long tubes.

In general, bumblebees with longer tongues are considered «specialists» which feed on flowers with deep, long tubes, while short - tongued bumblebees, in contrast, are «generalists» and tend to move pollen from a variety of flowers.

Pediatric patients with intestinal failure often need gastrostomy tubes, or feeding tubes inserted into an opening created in the stomach, for long - term nutrition.

Zinc deficiency might occur in people with severe diarrhea, conditions that make it hard for the bowel to absorb food, liver cirrhosis and alcoholism, after major surgery, and during long - term use of tube feeding in the hospital.

Pets that are hospitalized longer than two to three days and are not eating will need nutritional support through a feeding tube.

Although the feeding tube would definitely solve the immediate issue of making sure she is getting enough calories and nutrients, unfortunately it's not a long - term solution, so eventually she would need to start eating on her own.

If the symptoms lingered longer than 72 to 96 hours, the dog received nutrition via feeding tube so that the stomach and pancreas were bypassed.

The cage comes with many accessories, including a long hamster tube, two platforms, two slides, two feeding bowls, a 5oz water bottle, a large wheel with a stand, two hideouts, and a toilet.

Without knowing how long it had been since the pup had last eaten, the trained rescuers tube - fed Stormy Night electrolytes to boost hydration.

Immediately after the bill was signed, Schiavo's parents filed an emergency injunction to reinsert her feeding tube — which her husband has long maintained she would not want.

Facts: In that matter, a complainant asserted that her husband's illnesses (and his eventual death from lung and respiratory problems) resulted from a registrant misplacing a long term gastrostomy tube (a feeding tube) following a surgical procedure in 2009.