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A nurse is telling a coworker that she is unable to flush a feeding tube. Which suggestion offered by the coworker would be accurate, useful information?
A. Try using Coca-Cola to flush the tubing; the carbonation will break up any blockage.
B. "Cranberry juice works well because the acidity dissolves occlusions from medication."
C. "Call the health care provider; the tube is going to have to be replaced."
D. "Reposition the patient and see if you can flush the tubing with water."

Answer :

C. "Call the health care provider; the tube is going to have to be replaced."

If you have a feeding tube and there is a blockage in it, you don't want to try and flush it with Coca-Cola it will make it worse. Cranberry juice is just not meant to go down a feeding tube, and neither is Coca-Cola. You should only be putting medicine, food, and water down the feeding tube. You don't want to reposition the patient because if the feeding tube is out of place, you don't want to risk moving them and the feeding tube hitting something or going somewhere it is not supposed to. You should always call the health care provider if you can't get it to flush because that means there is a blockage. Blockages are not meant to try to be dealt with so your going to want to replace it.

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