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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