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Conditions Treated with a Feeding Tube
Conditions for Which We Use a Feeding Tube
A feeding tube can help you maintain adequate nutrition when an advanced gastrointestinal condition makes it difficult to take food by mouth. This can happen when you have:
- Crohn's disease (in severe cases)
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Gastrointestinal complications due to trauma
- Intestinal failure
- Bowel obstruction
- Microscopic colitis
- Narrowing in your esophagus or digestive tract (stricture)
- Short bowel syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
GI Nutrition Services
Offering a range of advanced therapies, our experts help patients with gastrointestinal disorders optimize nutrition and improve their quality of life.
Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center
420 Broadway Street, Pavilion D, 2nd FloorRedwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 650-736-5555