Helpful Products

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Tube Feeding-Specific Products

• See Tube Tips page

Protecting Central Lines and Feeding Tubes  (pouches, clothing and other covers to protect feeding tubes and central lines)

Clothing

• Tubie Whoobies - G Tube Pads for Fun

• Patchwork Peddler - G Tube Pads, Belts & Accessories

• Pocket Secures Tubes

• My Tubie Jammies (One-piece pajamas for infants and toddlers with a "tube extension ring" that allow tubes/catheter to pass through the chest or leg. Custom orders available)

• Kozie Clothes - Relevantly styled Sensory and Adaptive clothing for Babies and Children, plus large onesies with patch for tube

• Joey Pouch (US company makes a small pouch to wear around your neck to hold catheter tubing. Could likely be used for enteral tubes as well)

• Joey Pouch™ (UK company makes several different pouches to hold/cover catheter tubing, pumps, colostomy bags, etc.)

• Mini-Miracles - Special needs clothing for children

• Bigger Better Bodysuit

• Listing of many types of adaptive clothing, not necessarily all for tube feeders

• PICC Line Covers (adjustable covers to prevent PICC line from getting caught/tugged)

• Gus Gear (tubing covers, ostomy bag covers, etc.)

• Shirt Provides Easy Access to Central Lines, Ports

• Central Line Wrap for kids

• Olivia’s Peek-a-Boo Pocket (Children’s T-shirt that allows central line to thread through a slit into a pocket on the outside of the shirt)

• One Piece Clothing for Older Children and Adults

• Clothes, Wraps Hold Tubes, IV Lines, Ostomy Bags (BundieBaby)

• Tummy Tunnels (Iron-on patch provides access to catheter without damaging clothing)

Water Protection for Swimming / Bathing

Keep Kids Mobile

• MoveAround IV Buggy  - (The MoveAround IV Buggy makes it easier for children to be active and mobile while receiving IV therapy at home, in the hospital, or at a clinic).

• Vygon Tubing (Spiral IV extension tubing that expands and contracts to allow more freedom of movement -- like an old-fashioned telephone cord.)

• Mobility Ball (Allows baby/toddlers to crawl/walk without disrupting their feedings)
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• Backpacks Made for Kids with Pumps

Miscellaneous

• Bracelet Holds Medical Information

• Lamp-IV Pole Combo

• Makeshift IV Pole

• O-Ring Syringes Easy to Use

• Cart for HPN Storage, Preparation

• Gentle on Hands

• Rolling Cooler Makes Travel Easier

• Infusion-Friendly Backpack

• Products to Clean and/or Protect a CVC hub

• Mattress Genie

• Pediatric Rehydration

• Stand Frees Hands

• Portable IV Pole (very lightweight, aluminum)

• Capping CRBSIs

• No More Tangles (Device keeps your tubes separate)

• Mattress Protective Covers, etc. 
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• Tools to Make Feeding Children Easier

• Short Gut Wiki’s product page

• SureHands® Lift and Care System (Offers a variety of lift system options to help physically-challenged men, women and children or their caregivers)

• The Wright-Stuff (general health care products to make life easier)

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