Tube Weaning Programs for Feeding Tube Dependency ( FTD ) is created when a child becomes dependent on one they have been intubated. suctioned like a baby, suffered or experienced long term tube feedings during intensive medical are and has had an adverse effect due to nasogastric tube placements ( N G P ), vomiting, or prolonged or extensive feeding intolerance.

No child can just be given a Tube Weaning Programs, it can only be done under the strictest medical reasons such as a justified medical condition that not only conflicts but also conflicts with normal oral feeding or any other reason that might lead to the patient not getting proper nutritional value through normal or natural oral feeding.

Once the reasons for the initial F T D have been met and enough nutrients and or food is consumed and the child has eaten enough the F T D is removed but can also be re-inserted if the child’s body rejects the non-F T D feeding methods like going back to the normal oral feeds.

This will cause the doctors to resume the normal F T D regime until such time they can try and wean them off again.

To be weaned off the F T D, most patients have to be learned how to sufficiently practice and train to learn how to swallow again as most are a medical or neurological status and or oral inexperience and the oral motor skills can and may be delayed due to this extended F T D and can be disturbed as per the normal learning curve.

The normal F T D weaning off period is always done under the strictest medical conditions as we have to make sure there is no rejection from the child’s side as they are so used to the F T D and becomes very ” lazy” and can lead to them rejecting the normal oral feeding and sometimes even cause worse conditions like choking and eventual death.

The weaning should start off very slowly and under severe and constant medical observation and records should be kept per 15 minutes as per eating, breathing, swallowing, etc, just to make sure the patient does not reject normal oral feeding and can wean off the F T D and thus become a successful weaned patient and can from there onwards live a normal life, though the patient is kept under observation for quite a long time for any relapses.