Abstract
This report is on a method of the nutritional management in the patients with dysphagia. The gastric fistula is not suitable for patients who require rehabilitation for disorders in the limbs, because the tube in the stomach disturbs the movement and training. Continual placement of the naso-gastric tube (N-G tube) is uncomfortable to the patients and the patient hesitates to go out of the hospital with the N-G tube on. Selfinsertion of the N-G tube was tried on five patients with dysphagia: the patients inserted the N-G tube when they would like to eat or drink and after finishing the N-G tube was taken out by the patinets thmeselves and kept clean like they do with dishes. This method was tried on five patients with dysphaga. One of them could work by the use of this method, another patient who could not swallow water could take water easily, and the another one could get weight by this method.
