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Do hospice put feeding tubes down the patients throat if patients don't eat?

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Dr. Louis Gallia answered

Specializes in Surgery - Oral & Maxillofacial

Yes: Yes, that would be one option. Other options would be a feeding tube place directly into the stomach through the abdominal wall. Sometimes intravenous feedings.

Answered 10/4/2016

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Not comfort care.: They wouldn't generally pursue feeding tubes, as they're not considered comfort and the extra nutrition would possibly extend the time to death, which isn't the goal in hospice care. We're told that dying hungry is not as unpleasant as we would think, relating it to,how we feel when we're hungry.

Answered 12/1/2014

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