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Swallowing difficulties

can speech and language therapy help adults with swallowing difficulties. I struggling with swallowing and pain and feels like muscles are overworked and drinks and meds are a problem. I have been ...

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Choking and swallowing difficulties

My mother is 100 and has difficulty swallowing. The she chokes and coughs up her food and a lot of clear mucus. Any suggestions as to organisations in the Kent area?

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Any good ideas that actually might work for swallowing and speech exercise?

Any good ideas that actually might work for swallowing and speech exercise?

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Talk about your impairment - 5 Feb 2019

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Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists dysphagia/eating drinking and swallowing project

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists payment guidance for the dysphagia/eating drinking and swallowing guidance project Why is the RCSLT involving service users in this work? ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Cerebral palsy - 29 Nov 2023

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2 year old - problems with swallowing

My 2 year old Stepdaughter was born 3 months premature & has Cerebal Palsy affecting her right side. At the moment she is unable to sit unsupported but can move around by crawling. She has problems ...

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I am looking for adult toothpaste that can be swallowed.

Hello. I am looking for adult toothpaste that can be swallowed.

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Disability rights and campaigning - 27 Aug 2017

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A newbie hello! Anyone gone from an unsafe swallow to feeding orally among other questions!?

Hi, Our little girl is 4.5mo, born oxygen deprived at 38w (emergency c after heart depreciations in labour at home), diagosed grade iii (severe) HIE and last week we got a CP diagnosis, which we knew ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Children, parents, and families - 29 Dec 2012

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Do you "swallow spiders in your sleep" ?

BBC reckon that we swallow 8 spiders per year in our sleep https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66319172 I don't believe that I have ever swallowed a spider - in my sleep or whilst ...

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Dysphagia. Has anyone who's eppiglotis has failed ever got anywhere with swallowing liquids?

Hello all. Where to begin?? 2008 I was treated for tonsil cancer. 6 weeks of radio and couple of sessions of chemo. Radical neck dissection, removed all my teeth the usuals. All went well, lost all ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Start here and say hello! - 28 May 2022

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Flying....unsafe swallow

Hi this may be a strange question but its playing on my mind,my daughter swallows as an unsafe swallow and is fully tube fed I'm worried about taking her on a plane incase her ears pop and she can't ...

Profile picture of the author Discussion in Children, parents, and families - 6 Jan 2013

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