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Trouble In Swallowing Food, Choking, Prescribed Inflammatory Spray. Advice?

Hi over the last two days I have had trouble swallowing food , the best way to describe the unpleasantness is I feel like a have a ball of hair down my throat blocking the food making me splutter. I have only had soup and water over the last two days I feel like I am choking if I attempt to eat. Went to my doctors yesterday he couldn t see down my throat properly and gave me an anti inflammatory spray and told me to go back on Friday if symptoms persist.
Sat, 4 Aug 2012
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Dear difficulty in swallowing solids but not liquids is usually due to a mechanical obstruction like a foreign body or a mass but it could also be viral, candida or reflux esophagitis the later conditins are also associated with pain during swallowing. You should have a barium study of upper gastrointestinal tract to find out if there is really any obstruction. Thanks and take care.
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Trouble In Swallowing Food, Choking, Prescribed Inflammatory Spray. Advice?

Dear difficulty in swallowing solids but not liquids is usually due to a mechanical obstruction like a foreign body or a mass but it could also be viral, candida or reflux esophagitis the later conditins are also associated with pain during swallowing. You should have a barium study of upper gastrointestinal tract to find out if there is really any obstruction. Thanks and take care.