Home Enteral Feeding
All patients discharged with a PEG or PEJ from a hospital in Cornwall will be known to the Home Enteral Feeding Service and will be regularly reviewed.
Refer any patient who does not have regular contact ( at least every 6mths ) with the home enteral feeding team or who has symptoms potentially related to their feed e.g.
- unintentional weight loss
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unintentional weight gain
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nausea, vomiting, bloating
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persistent diarrhoea
For problems relating to the PEG tube or stoma contact the gastrostomy nurse on cornwallstrokeservice@nhs.net