Is dysphagia a nerve problem? What neurological disorders can cause dysphagia?

Updated on healthy 2024-06-22
8 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    Yes, it could be something else as well; Cerebrovascular disorders may cause difficulty swallowing due to hemiplegia, Parkinson's disease, compression of brain nerves, cerebellar myeloid malformation, cranial nerve specific injury, and dystonia.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Dysphagia is mainly caused by neurological disorders; Cerebrovascular diseases, inability to move involuntarily, cervical dystonia, cranial nerves, stiffness and other problems can cause symptoms of dysphagia.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    It's true that there is a problem with my nerves, and it has something to do with my throat. These nerves are, spinal nerves, hypoglossal nerves, motor nerves, pharyngeal nerves, and central nervous systems.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Dysphagia may indeed be a nerve problem. Problems with your brachial plexus, cauda equina, and common peroneal nerves can all cause difficulty swallowing.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    If there is this kind of difficulty in eating, in fact, it is a situation of dysphagia, I suggest that you can improve the condition of the body through intravenous nutrient solution, in addition to cutting the trachea if necessary, do the corresponding nursing work, and then eat some liquid food, the patient pays attention to eating high-calorie and high-protein food every day, if the patient's survival is seriously affected because of swallowing dysfunction, intestinal nutrition under the guidance of medical staff is a better method, and the gastrointestinal nutrition of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy can significantly prolong the survival of patients. Patients with severe conditions can be improved by supplementing nutrition, and when patients have respiratory tract infections, they must undergo tracheotomy and do corresponding nursing work to facilitate the recovery of the disease. Therefore, after the motor neuritis produces the disease, it will cause the phenomenon of dysphagia to the patient, at this time, you can eat some semi-liquid food to alleviate the harm of dysphagia, avoid the aggravation of motor neurons, after the occurrence of dysphagia, we must establish the determination to overcome the disease, and actively fight to improve dysphagia.

    Dysphagia for motor neuritis. In the daily life of the patient, a reasonable method can completely return the condition to normal. Therefore, the principle of motor neuron is very important, motor neuron dysphagia is only a manifestation, and patients have more problems to pay attention to.

    Therefore, in the process of motor neuron lesions, it is necessary to combine them in a life-like and psychological way in order to fully recover from the disease.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    In the early stages of the disease, patients will experience weakness in the hands and feet, and atrophy is a relatively common symptom. Initially, it may appear on one side, then on the opposite side. As the disease progresses, symptoms of mixed injury develop.

    In advanced stages, muscles throughout the body may atrophy, causing patients to be unable to lift their heads normally, have difficulty breathing, and have to stay in bed for long periods of time. Most of these diseases occur around the age of 50 and are relatively rare.

    1. Movement disorders.

    In the early stages of the disease, patients will have clumsy hand and foot movements, and the lower limbs will trip easily, in addition, there may be tonic muscle spasms, which is a more common movement disorder, including cerebellar ataxia or spastic paralysis, so the complications will be serious and must be done as soon as possible**.

    2. Speech disorder.

    Most patients may be due to pseudobulbar palsy or cerebellar lesions, so the voice will not be light or heavy, and even the vocal cords will be directly paralyzed, resulting in the patient being unable to speak normally at all.

    3. It's easy to get emotional.

    Such patients often have emotional irritability, and the gradual lack of awareness, accompanied by obvious memory loss, muscle weakness, especially the distal muscles of the upper and lower limbs will have obvious muscle strength decline, and it is easy to lose muscle volume.

    4. Sensory impairment.

    Sensory deficits are often caused by spinal cord injury. The most common symptoms for patients are numbness, acupuncture, and sometimes a cold or burning sensation. These abnormalities are caused by the disease.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Motor neuron disease, myasthenia gravis, etc. can cause this.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Many, many more, this one is recommended to go to the doctor.

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