PLM post that made me queasy

I've got some hard build up/deposit inside my peg tube. We've tried coke several times, and my husband has even scraped it, and it will not come off. Has anyone experienced this? Any suggestions on how to disolve it. Thanks.

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Hi ,

Last year we had a similar problem with XXXX's peg tube. We tried the Coke too and had some results but the tube was still slow.

We then washed out one of the hanging bottles that XXX's food comes in and placed 300 to 400 ml of cranberry juice in it. The cranberry juice is the type with no sugar, just straight cranberry juice that you can probably get at the helalth food store, we used Lakewood brand pure cranberry juice. From the information that I could find, the cranbery juice had a lower Ph than the coke and would probably be more active in cleaning the tube. We set the feeding pump to deliver 75 to 100 ml per hour and let it run with the cranberry juice all afternoon. This slow prolonged application seemed to work. Every few hours we would give the tube a good forceful squirt of warm water to help flush anything that the cranberry juice might have loostened up along with rolling the tube between our fingers every now and then to help loosten the caked on material. We did this once per week for several weeks until the tube was changed on its normal schedule.

We now flush the new tube with a bit of cranberry juice every day. 4 oz caraberry juice plus 4 oz water split up into (4) 2 oz squirts throughout the day. This seems to do the trick. The daily cranberry juice helps with UTinfection control also.

Hope this is of some help.