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If i eat 100 to 250 calories a day the rest of my nutrition coming from a jejunul feeding tube will my gastric motility deteriorate?

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Dr. Arthur Heller answered

Specializes in Gastroenterology

Can't answer here: Clearly, issues are too complex to answer here , if severe enough for you to be on jejunal tube feeding. Need to discuss with your doc, at length.

Answered 1/26/2014

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