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The Bolee Bag was introduced in February 2018 as a way to help home tube feeders more easily deliver nutrition. It was an immediate hit with the blenderized nutrition community as an easy way to both deliver and store nutrition in one container. No need to struggle with transferring your blends from the blender to a container for storage or to a syringe for delivery.

The bFed System is flexible! Patients and caregivers can use it as a gravity tube feeding system by letting the nutrition flow naturally or a bolus tube feeding system by squeezing the Bolee Bag to create the delivery speed needed. Below are gravity delivery speed times for a variety of undiluted commercial formulas using the bFed System and a straight bolus extension set:

At the recent Wisconsin Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (WISPEN) fall symposium, Lisa Epp, RDN, LD, CNSC gave a great presentation on blenderized tube feeding (BTF) practices. Lisa is a national expert on BTF an Assistant Professor of Nutrition at the Mayo Clinic and the home enteral nutrition coordinator for Mayo Clinic’s Home Enteral Nutrition Program. Under her leadership they have embraced BTF in their practice. She did a fantastic job of passing on their expertise in the presentation and breakout sessions.

When you or someone you care about is diagnosed with a health issue that requires a feeding tube, the most commonly recommended delivery system is a 60mL plastic syringe that wasn’t designed for tube feeding. Most people will settle for this delivery method and find tips and tricks to make it work for them. WHY? Here are three things to consider when deciding on a tube feeding delivery method
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