DIFFICULT IN SWALLOWING (dysphagia): Causes,symptoms and Treatment

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 DIFFICULT IN SWALLOWING (dysphagia): Causes,symptoms and Treatment

 Difficulty on swallowing as well as severe pain when swallowing anything, is a problem that can affect anyone and popularly known as Dyphagia.

 Problems arise when anything such as food, water, tea or any beverage try to pass from the mouth to the stomach.

 THE SOURCE OF THIS PROBLEM

 - Failure to digest food properly so as to allow food motion as you eat a condition known as Achalasia

 - Having infections of various diseases such as throat fungus

 - Having a throat cancer

 - Having inflammation in the digestive tract

 - Entering the object and blocking the food path

 - Having trouble with the nervous system or nerves in your body etc

 SYMPTOMS OF THIS PROBLEM INCLUDE;

 1. Difficulty in swallowing

 2. Getting severe pain when swallowing anything

 3. Getting a heartburn

 4. Having gastrointestinal reflux

 5. Feeling like the food or thing you ate is partially stuck

 6. Cough whenever you try to swallow anything

 7. Body weight decreases very rapidly

 TREATMENT FOR THIS PROBLEM

 - Treatment of this problem depends on its source, but in general there are some methods that can be used to treat this problem such as;

 ✓ The use of certain medications to expand the digestive tract, 

✓ medications for various ailments such as sore throat,

✓ practice special exercises to help the patient swallowing something without difficulty, as well as surgery if  necessarly.

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