New York, NY– The Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation is celebrating its seventh annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® from February 5 to 9, 2018. About half a million children and adults in the United States alone rely on feeding tubes, a number that is expected to increase. Feeding tubes are not just for those at the end of life, they provide necessary nutritional support for children to live, grow and thrive. There are well over 350 conditions and diseases that can require tube feeding in children.

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If you have a button style feeding tube, rather than a nasal or long tube, you will need extension sets that attach to the button. These extension sets connect from the button to a syringe or a feeding pump bag to allow you to feed, give medications, and administer liquids.

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The 7th annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® will be celebrated worldwide February 6-10, 2017!​​Feeding Tube Awareness Week® was created by the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, to increase awareness of feeding tubes and enteral feeding.This year we have...

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​ We would like to thank Lisa Metzger from the The Oley Foundation for the Tube Talk article covering The Buckwheat in this months issue of their newsletter.  Read More... This month we have sent out a feeding tube holder to Massachusetts,...

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I decided that this year I was going to make a great site to get The Buckwheat into the hands of as many people as I could.  I am not doing it to get rich, just trying to reach people...

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