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Kyle's Story: Tube Feeding and Cystic Fibrosis

Despite his best efforts to gain weight as a teenager with cystic fibrosis, Kyle found that couldn't get, “up to par.” In this video, Kyle and his parents discuss how his struggle to gain weight, ultimately led to him to try nasogastric (NG) tube feeding. Kyle also explains why he chose to use an NG tube versus a gastrostomy tube (G-tube), and the results that followed.