Drooling isn’t just for babies and toddlers! A 60-year-old with surname Li has symptoms of dysphagia, which not only leads to drooling at normal times, but often accidentally drops food out of the mouth when eating, even chewing after eating, leftover food remained inside the left cheek without knowing it, which made oral cleaning more difficult, and the difficulty in swallowing greatly affected the quality of life, and also made him shy and did not dare to go out for public activities.
Mr. Li, who has been in trouble for a long time, recently went to the Zhushan Xiuchuan Hospital Rehabilitation Department for help. With the assistance of rehabilitation physicians and speech therapists, he used the “Vitalstim Life Sustaining Swallowing Therapy Device with Electrical Stimulation” with appropriate rehabilitation exercises. After 12 rehabilitation sessions, general swallowing function was significantly restored, which not only greatly improves the dilemma of involuntary smearing, but does not drop food from the mouth after eating.After chewing, there will be no more food left in the mouth.
Chen Yaling, director of the rehabilitation department at Zhushan Xiu Chuan Hospital, said that stroke, senile dysphagia, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, brain injury and other conditions can easily cause dysphagia and symptoms vary. proper rehabilitation exercises and the use of equipment, most of them can improve one’s swallowing ability and greatly improve the quality of life.
Doctor Chen Yaling pointed out that many people have difficulty swallowing after a stroke, which makes life and care problematic.In fact, after dysphagia symptoms occur, the following conditions often occur, including choking when eat or drink and the need to ingest more To swallow food, if there is a foreign body sensation after swallowing and the throat feels itchy, the throat needs to be cleared, the food is not swallowed, the meal time is too long, food will come out of the mouth or nasal cavity, there is too much food residue in the mouth after swallowing, after eating Hoarse voice or phlegm sound, often drooling or choking unconsciously with saliva and weight loss for unknown reasons , and even lead to recurrent pneumonia.
Speech therapist Lin Peici said that to solve the problem of dysphagia, a new type of equipment has recently been introduced. People suffering from dysphagia can use the “Vitalstim Electrical Stimulation Swallowing Therapy Device” to improve and enhance their swallowing ability, thus improving their quality of life.
