Dysphagia Is it serious to choke on food?

If you have difficulty swallowing, you can go to the hospital to see if there is any hidden disease, and if you choke on food, you should be careful of entering the airway by mistake and causing suffocation.

Difficulty swallowing, choking on food is particularly serious. Common ** are oropharyngeal diseases, esophageal diseases, neuromuscular diseases, systemic diseases. It is recommended that you go to a regular tertiary hospital to see a doctor for further examination and find out**, so as to be better targeted**.

Seriously, especially for the elderly, it is necessary to find the cause first, hang the gastroenterology department, and see if it is a problem with the esophagus, difficulty swallowing, choking on eating, which will cause malnutrition for a long time, and suffocation if it is serious.

It is necessary to pay attention to the possibility of esophageal diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and mediastinal diseases, which need to be confirmed by gastroscopy and chest CT examination.

How long has this been the case.

If it is serious, it may be a malignant tumor, so please go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

Dysphagia is mostly caused by throat inflammation, and the specific clinical manifestations include retrosternal pain and dyspnea; Some patients will also have symptoms such as fever, hoarseness, and increased saliva; A small number of patients may have space-occupying lesions in the throat and esophagus. If you have any of the above symptoms, you should immediately go to the hospital for diagnosis and**.

Dysphagia is a common disease in daily life, and the most typical clinical symptom is esophageal cancer, which can cause some other diseases in severe cases, so it is recommended that patients go to the hospital for diagnosis as soon as possible. So what are the symptoms of dysphagia? The following 6 symptoms of dysphagia are more obvious, let's find out together.

1. Accompanied by choking.

It may be due to myasthenia gravis causing masticatory muscles, which can lead to rejection and difficulty swallowing, and choking when drinking water. Usually, dysphagia gets worse with longer periods of eating.

2. Painful swallowing.

Eating is followed by habitual dysphagia, which is accompanied by a burst of pain, mainly in the chest, behind the chest, in the suprasternal depression, and in the neck. If you eat some cold foods regularly, it will worsen the pain, and this phenomenon is medically called diffuse esophageal spasm.

3. Accompanied by asthma and dyspnea.

The reason why cough occurs after eating is more common in reflux aspiration, and is common in bulbar paralysis and reflux esophagitis.

4. With regurgitation.

It may be caused by dysfunction of ocular nerve recordings. The possibility of regurgitation over a longer period of time after eating suggests proximal dilation of esophageal obstruction. If there is a large amount of regurgitation and there is food and lodging, it may be esophageal achalasia, which in most cases occurs when lying flat at night, and often wakes up with choking.

5. There is a sense of blockage.

Even if you don't eat, you can clearly feel that there will be an obstruction of objects moving up and down in the pharynx. Such a situation mainly occurs in young women, and if it is not timed**, the symptoms of physical discomfort will be aggravated.

6. Accompanied by hiccups.

It is mainly located at the lower end of the esophagus and is commonly found in diaphragmatic hernias.

The above are the 6 symptoms of dysphagia, when the body appears these symptoms, you need to go to the hospital immediately for diagnosis and**. The specific **principle** is to actively ** all kinds of esophageal to the primary disease, and then on this basis to carry out appropriate symptomatic support**. **After a period of time, patients can get temporary relief.

Swallowing dysfunction is caused by tongue muscle dysfunction, gag reflex loss, etc., such patients have poor synergistic effect, so symptoms such as choking and coughing will occur when eating and drinking. **The approach to swallowing dysfunction is as follows:

1. Tongue muscle training: patients can eat sticky food balls to improve and train swallowing;

2. Swallowing function instrument: physical means such as swallowing function instrument can be used for training;

3. Traditional Chinese medicine**: such as acupuncture, acupoints, etc.

Training swallowing function is more complicated, and after the diagnosis is clear, it is necessary to first first develop the original disease, such as swallowing dysfunction caused by stroke, and at the same time carry out swallowing function training and other measures. Under the guidance of professional physicians and teachers, the recovery of swallowing function and ** can receive better clinical results.

In case of dysphagia, cough due to eating and water, it is necessary to rule out whether there is a swallowing disorder caused by stroke, and it is also necessary to rule out whether there is dysphagia caused by muscle dystrophy muscle weakness, and if the symptoms are severe, it is recommended to further neurological head CT examination and electromyography examination.