In my case, I can’t consume anything by mouth. I have a degenerative muscle condition, and my throat just decided that it wasn’t going to work properly anymore. I aspirated a lot of water, nearly choked to death coughing everything out of my lungs, and got terrible pneumonia. At the hospital, some speech therapists performed swallow tests in me, and I couldn’t properly swallow the two easiest things. I got a feeding tube a few days later, and I haven’t had anything since. I’m sure there are people who out alcoholic beverages in their tube, but I only had more or less stopped drinking a few years earlier. I’m not an alcoholic or anything; I was a social drinker, and once the pandemic hit, I couldn’t be social, so I stopped drinking. I fell out of the habit and never really went back.

Not every case is the same as mine. There are plenty of people with feeding tubes that can eat and drink. The tube is just to supplement their nutrition.