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Dysphagia

The document provides therapeutic recommendations for managing dysphagia. It suggests assessing a patient's nutritional intake, encouraging small frequent meals of soft foods while chewing thoroughly and eating slowly, keeping the head elevated after eating to decrease risk of aspiration, and using antacids and medications to relieve pain and reduce gastric irritation.

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Dysphagia

The document provides therapeutic recommendations for managing dysphagia. It suggests assessing a patient's nutritional intake, encouraging small frequent meals of soft foods while chewing thoroughly and eating slowly, keeping the head elevated after eating to decrease risk of aspiration, and using antacids and medications to relieve pain and reduce gastric irritation.

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Dysphagia

Therapeutic Management

Encouraging Adequate Nutritional Intake

-Assess patient’s intake of nutrients

-Obtain baseline weight and daily weight.

-Patient encouraged to eat slowly and to chew all food thoroughly


(So food can easily pass the stomach)

-Recommend small frequent feeding of non-irritating foods


(To promote digestion and prevent tissue irritation)

-Prepare food in an appealing manner


(stimulates appetite)

-Ask patient to avoid tobacco and alcohol


(Tobacco and alcohol are irritants)

Decreasing Risk of Aspiration

-Position patient in semi-fowler

-Patient can be instructed the use of oral suction

Relieving Pain
-recommend small frequent feeding

-Advice patient to avoid any activities that increases pain

-Remain upright for 1 to 4 hours after each meal.

-Head of the bed should be placed on 4 to 8 inches (10-20 cm) blocks

-Discourage eating before bed time

-Advise patient that excessive use of OTC antacids


(can cause rebound acidity.)

-Histamine2 antagonists are administer


(to decrease gastric irritation)

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