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MS Patients Needing Feeding Tubes May Live Longer if Given By Age 50, Study Finds
A study of people who needed feeding tubes due to dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, found age 50 to be a cut-off point for living more than another 2 years. Click here to read more about this study and its findings.
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Good news.
My best mate doesn’t have MS but was struck down by a massive sclerosis nearly two decades ago. He just survived and has been on a feeding tube, or as he puts it a ‘Peg’ , ever since.
He and his family decided to normalize things so he chews food and spits it out into his empty feeding bottles when everyone else is having a social meal. It’s a bit like having a meal with David Blaine – you have no idea how he does it.
Luckily he’s not up a pole, in a block of ice or underwater!
That would be weird.
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