What do you do to give medication if the nasogastric tube is blocked?!


Question: What do you do to give medication if the nasogastric tube is blocked?
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We always used to use coca-cola to unclog an NG tube. The bubbles seemed to help unclog it. Use diet coke if the person is diabetic.

Push some in, maybe 20mls or so, cap it off for 5 minutes or more, then try to flush it through. Keep doing this until it works.

It always worked in the hospital. We used pepsi, as welll.




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