MUSCATINE – Police warned Kristy Reiser about traffic in front of her house on 2nd Street in Muscatine: “They told me that it would be closed from 2 p.m. until
Dementia is not a disease, but rather a collection of symptoms stemming from brain deterioration that occurs as people age. Alzheimer’s disease and small repetitive strokes known as vascular dementia are the most common illnesses leading to dementia.
A PEG tube—the acronym stands for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy—is a silicone rubber feeding tube affixed to a patient’s belly through a simple surgical procedure. Intended for long-term feeding for patients who can’t or won’t eat, the tube carries liquid nutrition directly into the stomach.
While criticism of through-the-stomach feeding tubes has revolved around their use in frail elderly people, the device is widely accepted as crucial to medical care in a number of other circumstances.
