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How should gastric tubes be secured during swimming?
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No swiming: you really should not be swimming if you have gastric tube depend why you have it is it permanent or not and how they did it regular every day gastric tube has to be there all the time and if you swim you are taking chanced of water going to your stomach or gastric juices coming out check with you doctor
Answered 1/5/2019
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