Peg tube Bleeding

Seems like it was always pink and irritated, I often had to clean off dried blood, but I don't recall any dripping.  In your case, it probably appeared to be more blood than was actually there, because you had also applied some water.  It doesn't sound like a medical emergency, but let some others chime in here too.

Deb

Rachel

did it stop bleeding yet ?   I had some bleeding once in a while, but one of the nurses told me it was mainly from the constant irritation by the feeding tube..... i.e., the weight of the tube was constantly pulling down on the stoma (gravity), so it was getting aggravated.....I finally took the end of the feeding tube and tied it to a length of soft shoelace (actually 2) and tied it around my neck.  that ended up being an easy way to carry the tube and it lessened the pressure on the stoma, so it stopped bleeding.

Also, you can try to GENTLY move the disc a little bit higher up the tube to get it a little bit away from the stoma and give you some breathing room....it shouldn't be so tight that it is leaving marks.

hope that helps.  If you can't get the bleeding to stop, go to the ER.

rachel12yrsuv said:

Ingrid, thank u. I feel
Ingrid, thank u. I feel better hearing someone else has had it happen on here. It does seem to have stopped and was never gushing, like Deb said it might have been exaggreated by the water I was cleaning with.
I did not know u could move disk up, knew I could turn to not get same marks everyday, but to get it off my skin would be a blessing, I look at tomorrow. Again thank you!

Take care,

Rachel

rachel12yrsuv said:

Matt,
I think they all have
Matt,

I think they all have an ax to grind or mad at someone and take it out on us with those damn disks. They are very irritating to say the least. It is so uncomfortable as a woman to wear needed things, and then to put two tubes in same spot 13 years apart...give me a break, especially when I discussed how uncomfortable that spot had been. I may have lost some weight over the years, but my gosh I know my internal stomach is bigger then just that spot. I think he saw easy in an out and went through same spot rather than heed org. Request. Oh well, nothing I can do, don't want another surgery so deal with it.

Thanks for telling me its normal, like I told ingrid it stopped, ill be alittle nervous to pull gauze tomorrow, but I am sure God will be looking out for me. Good night friends, don't know where everyone is, but 1130 on the east coast and tired!

God Bless you all on our site,

Rachel

I was just getting ready to ask the same question when I saw your post. Hubby had his put in a week ago and I noticed on Fri. morning that it was bleeding. It seems to be each morning. I am still cleaning and changing the gauze each morning. It's not dripping, just sort of oozing. Hubby coughs very hard a lot at night and though it's a no-no, pushes himself up with that arm.

I, of couse, freaked at 2:00 Fri. morning and called Home Health.  The nurse just suggested a larger gauze. Hubby showed it to the nurse who visited on Sat. and she was not alarmed.

Ingrid, thanks for the shoelace suggestion. Now, if he just doesn't hang himself on the shoelace.  LOL

Luv,

Wolfen

rachel12yrsuv said:

Phrannie,
I know how to spin
Phrannie,

I know how to spin disk, but how do you pull it out a little, I don't have enough room to hold tube under disk, and afraid that if I move up holding tube above disk, I could pull it out at slightest tug?

Rachel

Ingrid K said:

does your tube look like this one ?

Sorry for double post.....

This is a bad picture, but does your feeding tube look like this one ?   (I stole this from Kent Cass's page).

you should be able to move the disc away from your body a tad.....just so the disk is not embedded into your skin so that it leaves a mark.....if you can't do it easily, don't tug on it.....(it may be stuck due to gunk sticking to it)....but don't try to force it.

Just ask them when you see your doctor next....or call and ask them over the phone.

Mine had a small hemisphere (mushroom shaped) end inside, but outside was nothing to hold it in place, except for the dressing. Therefore, it moved a lot (with the respiratory movements, and any type of movement actually) and created a bit of granulation tissue around the stoma. The granulation was painful and very fragile, and it was bleeding easily.

donfoo said:

Oh hell no.

Is THAT what they look like? It looks huge. HOw the hell do you cover that thing up? I'm thinking maybe there is a small stub that stays and all the rrest of that crap comes off. If that is what is stuck on my stomach all the time I just erased the PEG item from my dinner order.

Don,

They make a flush mount model for those inclined.  Someone on here had one installed recently (and it looked real good).

You might miss out on the threads where everybody describes their method of “tie-up”.

Oh the good old days of sleeping on my back and discovering the PEG wasn’t closed or was dangling to my knees.

Best of luck,

Matt