Talk:Dysphagia

message: I'm not convinced that neurologists limit the term in the same way that most gastroenterologists do.  Do the GI docs own the term dysphagia?  WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: arbitrary break

message: I pulled the followint out of the article:
:Of all the groups who suffer dysphagia, those with Oculopharygeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD) are the most likely to be overweight rather than underweight.  The problem seems to centre around the pharynx which sometimes causes food to get stuck in the throat - meaning that one has to cough up the food before reswallowing and learn to take smaller bites.  Unless one is at advanced age, OPMD is annoying or embarassing but not life threatening.  It seems that the foods that OPMD members find the easiest to swallow tend to be fatning.
The dysphagia article needs to concentrate on the symptom and it's evaluation.  The specifics of the various diseases that present with dysphagia need to be discussed in theri own section.  Steve Kd4ttc 22:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oculopharygeal Muscular Dystrophy 

message: since this is much more common than oropharyngeal dysphagia, i wrote about it first. I think  i have covered everything there is on the differential of esophageal dysphagia. I have literature references but no time to put them in as of now. i will write about oropharyngeal dysphagia once i have some time. If anything is left out or is incorrect please let me know. thanks!
Andrewr47 02:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Esophageal dysphagia 

message: There is no "gold standard" assessment for deglutition disorders.  A "gold standard" would suggest that an instrument measures every aspect of swallowing perfectly.  The radiographic examination, while excellent, does not allow examination of the aspiration of secretions for instance, while the endoscopic examination does.  The radiographic examination allows one to observe hyolaryngeal elevation while the endoscopic exam does not.  So, no gold standard.Jtmurray 01:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold Standard 

message: Again the confusion arises between dysphagia and swallowing disorders.  For example "A Speech Language Pathologist is most often the first person called upon to evaluate a patient with suspected dysphagia" really makes no sense.  It is like saying "The hand is examined when the patient is suspected of complaining of hand pain".  Kd4ttc (talk) 05:44, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Falling back to confusion between dysphagia and swallowing disorders

message: The article is really about the evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders.  Dysphagia, odynophagia, and cough are all symptoms of swallow disorders.  There should be an article on the symptoms related to swallow disorders which could be short, then a link to this article, which should be renamed Swallowing Disorders.   There as so many instances in this article where Dysphagia is being used to mean Swallowing Disorder that it seems to me the easier approach will be to rename this article.  Kd4ttc (talk) 05:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(medicine-related_articles) we should keep the name of the article "Dysphagia", but if you'd like to create a new page swallowing disorders, and move some of the content on this page there, I'd have no objection. --Arcadian (talk) 05:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I gather that you are referring to the policy that says you should keep the technical name rather than the Lay Term for the article title.  The problem I am referring to is that the title of the article, Dysphagia, means it should be an article about having the symptom of food not progressing readily down into the stomach.  The article throughly confuses Dysphagia with Swallowing Disrders.  Kd4ttc (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Dysphagia seems to a swallowing disorder of which there must be others, so a move if this page's content to swallowing disorders with edits to cirrect it's content to new title and the some links back to Dysphagia, with some content to refer to the specific disorder is fine! --Leevanjackson (talk) 18:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Dysphagia is not a swallowing disorder.  Dysphagia means the patient is complaining of food seeming to stick.  The underlying swallowing disorder is then the disease. Unfortunately, the medical dictionaries all say difficulty swallowing, with just a small mark in the definition that it is a symptom.  Many well meaning folks here have been editing this thinking dysphagia is itself a disease.  It is akin to chest pain being a symptom of heart disease, but chest pain is not a disease, it is a symptom.  I was thinking about continuing to edit this some more.  It actually is a nice article now about swallowing disorders.  The fun will come when things are shifted around and the dysphagia symptom vs dysphagia means swallowing disorder issue arrises, again.  I plan on doing this deliberately (as in slowly) so everyone is onboard. Thanks for your interst. Steve, Kd4ttc (talk) 22:44, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to rename the article Swallowing Disorders

message: I am editing the article as if it were titled Swallowing Disorders.  Later a section on Dysphagia should be written.  I suggest that on the move, the dysphagia section will remain with a link to swallowing disorders.  Alternatively, dysphagia can redirect to swallowing disorders. Kd4ttc (talk) 16:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits anticipating an article move

message: The last sentence of the first paragraph under Epidemiology causes the condition mentioned. How annoyingly ironic. 68.125.161.84 (talk) 03:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: You are now breathing manually

message: The Epidemiology section seems biased towards oropharyngeal dysphagia.  For example, an SLP only evaluates oropharyngeal dysphagia and not esophageal dysphagia.  Should changes be made or maybe parts should be moved over to the oropharyngeal dysphagia page?  Any thoughts???  (Kewla6 (talk) 21:44, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to have "both/and" instead of "either/or".  That is, if the info here also applies to oropharyngeal dysphagia, then it should be copied there, and if you have a good source on esophageal dysphagia, then that should be added here (and in the ED article, if it's not already there).  WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:28, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Epidemiology

message: "Dysphagia is a symptom of many different causes, which can usually be elicited by a careful history by the treating physician and a formal dysphagia evaluation performed by a speech-language pathologist.[15]"  I wonder if this is a joke.  The problem is with swallowing not speaking.--151.200.239.142 (talk) 02:56, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A Speech and Language Specialist?

message: How/where can/should these topics be links near top of page (?) - at appropriate subjects? -  for people who encounter this page:
Esophageal Cancer
Chagas' Disease (when discussing esophageal achalasia & related conditions)
"pseudo-achalasia" [characteristics of achalasia from other cause, e.g., carcinoma]
Measures of Disease-Related Quality of life
  :--KnowLimits (talk) 05:29, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki-links suggested early 

message: The text in the side effects section is gibberish.  Can someone fix or clarify? 
"It is recommended not to mix Thick & Easy with jelly, because may interact with the jelly and do the opposite effect on the jelly substance." 
- side effects of what? Dysphagia? a medicine? what?75.149.161.133 (talk) 22:22, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Side Effects 

message: ... are fairly imprecise! doi:10.1002/jhm.2313 JFW | T@lk 19:13, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Water swallow test is alright-ish. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2016.03.059 JFW | T@lk 16:14, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment tools 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: According to this video aired by Japan's NHK on NHK WORLD-Japan, swallowing problems are often treatable by stretching the hamstrings. As the citing video below explains, stretching the hamstrings improves the position of the pelvis, and that allows the tongue to function properly again, which in turn alleviates dysphagia. The following link may be expired, but the video can still be found by searching "Take a Stand Against Trouble Swallowing - GATTEN! - NHK.JP." 
<<ref:https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4031010/?
Gary Henscheid (talk) 10:20, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dysphagia is treatable with hamstring stretches: Video by Japan's NHK