MODULE 1: METHODOLOGY AND TOOLS DEVELOPMENT FOR ADULT EDUCATORS

It is the sensation that food is stuck in your throat or chest and it partially prevents air from getting into lungs. It persists breath and starts coughing to eliminate this strange particle. Sometimes the coughing produces persistent drooling of saliva, regurgitation, nausea, vomiting or other symptoms.

How is an airway choke treated?

• It is advisable to encourage the person to cough until the element is expelled. It should avoid drinking liquids, eating food or back blows because the foreign object could fall into the airway.

If the person with dysphagia has lost weight accidentally in the last few weeks or months, see a professional. 

Many dysphagia patients are concerned about choking or coughing while drinking liquids. 

Dysphagia is associated with a decrease in water intake, which is exacerbated by the degradation of thirst in elderly persons. They are at a high risk of dehydration as a result of this. 

The first approach in preventing dehydration is to keep track of how much modified texture fluids you consume on a daily basis.

 Aspiration pneumonia is a leading cause of death in the elderly and feeble, as well as in patients who do not cough after aspiration or whose repeated aspirations or pneumonia go unrecognized.

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