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  • lady4darknight
    lady4darknight CSN Member Posts: 90
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    Kent Cass said:

    Paper tape Debbie
    Is used to hold the gauze, as well as the tube itself, Debbie: I was using 3x3 gauze I custom-cut, and 4x4 paper tape from Walgreen's. For the gauze: cut a line from one side to the center, then make a small square cut at the end of that line, slide it under the PEG flap that's up against your stomach's outside, so that the square is around the tube between the flap and skin, then tape the 4 outer sides of the gauze. I used to change my gauze every two days, and would wash the area near where the tube goes inside with Peroxide.

    kcass

    thank you
    Thank you for the answers I needed. I will do this since I still have some drainage from it being inserted. This will make this thing more comfortable than that girdle thing..lol.
    thanks
    Debbie
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