When leakage occurs, is there a good way to stop it or a product to put on the skin to avoid excess irritation?
3. When you are eating easily and it is time to remove the PEG tube, are there complications involved in the healing after removal of long time PEGs? If it doesn’t close up properly, where do you go from there? Answer: Okay gang let’s talk PEG tubes. You have been gracious enough to send me some questions so I will do my best to answer them. 1. The first question concerns a chronic problem with difficulty swallowing despite repeated dilations. Let me give you my opinion about dilation. Basically, I don’t think it works. Let’s look at the problem. You have a round organ such as the esophagus. Around this circular organ you have scar tissue. The most basic thing that scar tissue does is to CONTRACT. When you have contracture around a circular organ you get narrowing or stricture. Now let’s look at what happens when you dilate something. What you do is forcibly break up the scar causing a new wound. This results in quess what? That’s right, more scar tissue. And what is scar going to do?
