More Traveling with Your Feeding Tube

I’ve combined two steps for traveling together on this post. My other recommendations are broken down into three previous posts.
This is so crucial I probably should have begun with this post. Take a note from your doctor on official stationary or Rx form verifying you are a tube feeder. The enteral system looks like a [...]

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Traveling With Your Feeding Tube, More Advice

More travel advice for the tube feeder
What do you absolutely have to have before you can leave home? A travel bag, a back up tube system, and note from you doctor. Let’s deal with the back up system first.
Stuff happens at the most inopportune times. It’s a rule of life. Plastic becomes brittle. Valve [...]

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If you ignored my previous post and bought a dream flight ticket anyway, good for you. But, as it gets closer to departure day, you’d better answer some questions to avoid disaster later. Will your food travel with you? At a minimum of five cans a day, more if you’re walking around being touristy, you’ll [...]

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Come Fly w Me and My Feeding Tube

The following posts will deal with travel advice for tube feeders for both domestic and overseas flights. The posts were prompted by a reader who asked this question: can my friend fly to Italy after having a feeding tube inserted. And can she go just two to three weeks after surgery? Her doctors say if [...]

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