About Us

Delivering exceptional home tube feeding nutrition care with compassion, excellence, and reliability.

Nutrition Care With

COMPASSION

Understanding, empathy, and kindness underpin and guide everything we do and all our interactions.

EXCELLENCE

Top-quality care backed by more than 30+ years of combined expertise and knowledge in home tube feeding nutrition care.

RELIABILITY

You can depend on us for consistent support with a direct line to call, text, or email us whenever you need tubie support.

Hi, and welcome to Tube Dietitian!

My name is Lina Breik and I’m the Founder of Tube Dietitian and an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian from Australia. After more than 12 years working in hospitals, I kept seeing the same gap: people discharged home with feeding tubes but no real support for living well at home. Nutrition was often reduced to a sterile routine, spoons replaced with syringes, meals replaced with regimens, laughter at the dinner table replaced with the ticking of a clinical clock.

Tube Dietitian grew out of that frustration and a deep belief that home should still feel like home (plus the home-cooked meal!); and people with feeding tubes aren’t the exception. Since founding the business in 2020, my mission has been to bridge the gap between hospital and home, restoring dignity, autonomy, and choice to those navigating home tube feeding. Yes, our work is clinical, but it’s also about humanity, advocacy, and systemic change.

My team and I provide personalised nutrition care that fits into your daily life, whether through in-person home visits, virtual consultations, or phone (yes a direct mobile hotline only for our clients) and email support. But our work goes beyond 1:1 consultations. We believe knowledge is empowering, so we’ve developed a range of tubie resources to support you on your journey:

  • A blog filled with practical tips and inspiring stories

  • Pump; our monthly e-newsletter, with the latest on products and research

  • Books I’ve authored on tube feeding

  • Training and mentoring programs for dietitians supporting people who live at home with a feeding tube

Six years on, I couldn’t be happier with the community we’ve built together. I sincerely hope you enjoy exploring this website, and I encourage you to reach out if you have any questions or even just to say hello.

“Nutrition is more than just medicine. It’s a form of love, reflects culture, and is an integral part of all our social interactions. Nutrition through a feeding tube is no different.”
— Lina Breik, Advanced Dietitian

Meet the Team

Lina Breik

  • Lina Breik is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian with 15 years of clinical nutrition hospital experience in tube feeding. Lina has a particular passion with helping those with a disability and a feeding tube nourish their bodies to optimise their wellbeing and independence. She is currently doing a PhD at Monash University on home feeding tube and serves on the Board of Directors at Dietitians Australia.

Julia Kuypers

  • Julia Kuypers is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has been working in a number of Australian hospitals since 2012, in both research and clinical roles. She has undertaken research in oncology nutrition; and has a passion for empowering people with feeding tubes to make informed choices about their care.

Erin Russell

  • Erin Russell is a clinical and research Accredited Practising Dietitian working in the area of gastroenterology nutrition. She has worked closely with both inpatients and outpatients with feeding tubes across several tertiary-teaching health services such as Eastern Health, Alfred Health, and Monash Health. Erin has specialist knowledge in the nutritional management of gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and is currently undertaking research in this area at St Vincent's Health.

Kate Young

  • Kate Young is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian who has been working in the private sector for the last 5 years across Mulgrave Private Hospital, St John of God, and Brunswick Private Hospital. She has a specific passion in oncology and helping people requiring tube feeds after surgery.

Stef Riccardi

  • Stef is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with over 5 years’ experience in helping those who have a feeding tube. She has spent most of her time at Western Health working across a range of speciality areas with a particular interest in gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery but above all her passion is helping others to live their best life. Prior to a career in dietetics, Stef worked in a research role at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and continues to fuel her passion for research as a dietitian.

Karthika Kardaris

  • Karthika Kardaris is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has been working in the clinical setting for six years. Her particular passion is helping those who have had surgery somewhere along their digestive tract and ended up with a feeding tube. She has worked across several tertiary-teaching health services in Victoria including St Vincent's Health and Monash Health.