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Easterncedar

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5. If you can get a referral to a SALT, it can help

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Wed Sep 18, 2024, 10:43 PM

Sep 2024

You may have something more involved going on, but exercises given by a Speech and Language Therapist really helped my guy when he developed weakness in swallowing, which led to choking.

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Do people here have more "mixing tubes" episodes - food getting into the windpipe? [View all] question everything Sep 2024 OP

I do, but I had Stage IV throat cancer and now have Barrett's esophagus. Perhaps you need to have sinkingfeeling Sep 2024 #1

Thanks, will look into this. question everything Sep 2024 #3

What you describe ... FarPoint Sep 2024 #2

It CAN BE part of aging Lefta Dissenter Sep 2024 #4

Swallow clinic. I have never heard of it. Will look into it. Thanks question everything Sep 2024 #6

Spouse uses the CPAP for his sleep apnea and theorizes that it is related question everything Sep 2024 #8

If you can get a referral to a SALT, it can help Easterncedar Sep 2024 #5

Not so much food but definitely liquids. vanamonde Sep 2024 #7