Signs of dysphagia include coughing or choking when you eat, difficulty swallowing, or pain when swallowing. You may need to learn different ways of chewing and swallowing to prevent choking. Or you may need to rely on thickened supplemental drinks for a while. Let your doctor know if you're...
Inclusion criteria were signs of dysphagia on clinical swallowing examination (CSE), recurrent pneumonia or unex- plainedweight loss.Exclusion criteriawere history of stroke and surgical pathology. All patients (mean age = 83 yo; mean MMSE = 9) were assessed using a diet typi...
The prevalence of swallowing impairments at the middle stage of the disease had the same trend as the first stage. Severe dysphagia was mainly represented in the late stage (26%); in fact, the two subjects receiving nutrition through non-oral feeding were in this stage of HD.Conclusions...
Results: Gross OHAT score did not differ among the oral intake groups at the time of admission (mean ± standard deviation score: 6.5 ± 2.8 for non‐oral diet, 5.6 ± 2.4 for dysphagia diet and 5.3 ± 2.1 for regular diet), but improved more in the regular diet group (2.4 ...