Another dodgy plug on the NGT

Argh, this is the second NGT tube that we have had where the plug has come loose by itself. you might have notice that it has been over a week since he has had the tube replaced so we thought we were doing well; and then this happens.

A loose plug manifests itself in an devious way. The first sign that you might get is when you pick him up you might put your hand in a gooey slimy patch of vomit on his clothes, becuase this isn't that uncommon anyway we just change him and continue on our merry way until we find yet another vomit patch somewhere in a very short time. After another change of clothes we realise that his new change of clothes is already contaminated. That is when the alarm bells ring and we look for the offending plug. Sure enough when plugging it back in again it just slips straight back out again and the smelly part digested contents of his stomach start to leak out once again.

My wife has discovered that to perform a temporary fix we just need to snip of a plug from an old NGT and plug up the hole with it. And then do a load of washing.

The first photo shows the unplugged tube and the extra piece that we used from a previous tube. The second photo shows the extra piece plugged in, making the normal yellow plug redundant.

You might also be able to see dust stuck to the outside of the tube. This is just because it gets sticky-tape residue on it from where we tape the tube to his clothes during the day.