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What Causes Difficulty In Swallowing Along With Breathing Difficulty?

I am an 86 yer ols male who is now having some occasional difficulty swallowing food and recently had a complete blockage where I couldn t swllow or breath. I coughed up piece of the food I was eating but needs my wife to help with compression from behind, I also get frequently get a horse voice suddenly without any notice. . No pain involved in either case. David Picken YYYY@YYYY
Tue, 16 Jan 2018
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difficulty is swallowing at your age is common, many reasons for that, most common is narrowing of the food pipe inlet due to fibrosis or weakness of muscles of the food pipe, the muscles help to propel the food into the stomach, what you can do is have semisolid soft diet to start with and even if that is a problem than consult a gastroenterologist who will do an endoscopic examination on you to check the food pipe and if required will dilate the food pipe, if that’s not helping than probably you need a feeding tube that directly goes into your stomach


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What Causes Difficulty In Swallowing Along With Breathing Difficulty?

difficulty is swallowing at your age is common, many reasons for that, most common is narrowing of the food pipe inlet due to fibrosis or weakness of muscles of the food pipe, the muscles help to propel the food into the stomach, what you can do is have semisolid soft diet to start with and even if that is a problem than consult a gastroenterologist who will do an endoscopic examination on you to check the food pipe and if required will dilate the food pipe, if that’s not helping than probably you need a feeding tube that directly goes into your stomach regards Dr Raza Ali