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Which patients are not suitable for nasal feeding? Not all people are suitable for nasal feeding

Nasogastric feeding is a method of inserting a catheter into the stomach through the nasal cavity and pouring liquid food, water and drugs from the tube. However, nasal feeding is not suitable for all people, so which patients is not suitable for nasal feeding? In fact, not all people are suitable for nasal feeding.

Which patients is not suitable for nasal feeding? 1. Patients who have no autonomy but need to maintain their gastrointestinal function and life support, such as vegetative patients;

2. The patients who can't eat after throat surgery, but have the self-consciousness to eat by nasal feeding, so as to reduce the economic and physical burden brought by intravenous infusion;

3. Patients with large area burn and throat burn can be given nasal feeding for the same reason as 2.