Letters to the Editor: Parents are helping raise awareness about tube feeding

As Feeding Tube Awareness Week ends, one reader highlights the challenges parents face, while others write about climate change, antisocial behaviour, and the death of John Bruton

It is not only premature and sickly babies that require tube feeding: Letter-writer Aisling McNiffe's 18-year-old son has been tube fed since birth. Picture: iStock

It’s a very busy time of the year for raising awareness for those with additional needs. This month alone we have rare disease day and congenital heart defect (CHD) awareness week, and — just this week — we had tube feeding awareness week. 

There are a lot of articles and radio interviews about rare disease and CHD awareness. My son has CHD and a rare disease but also he is tube-fed since birth.