[Dysphagia] Spanish resources

[smhjr at surfbest.net (smhjr@surfbest.net)]

I have always had translators (family or hospital) use traga. These
have all been Mexican immigrants.

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From: mbuckie@dmc.org
To: RN2D@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu, vstefans@george.ach.uams.edu,
dysphagia@b9.com
Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] Spanish resources
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:41:34 -0400

>
>That's interesting...whenever I have had a family member translate
>they have used the command form traga , like traga otra vez (swallow
>again)...Different regions of Spanish speakers use different vocab
>words sometimes (Cuban v. Mexican v. Puerto Rican)
> 
>MPB
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>	From: dysphagia-bounces@b9.com on behalf of Neubert, Rebecca R *HS 
>	Sent: Tue 6/1/2004 8:56 AM 
>	To: Vikki Stefans; dysphagia@b9.com 
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>	Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] Spanish resources
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>	I agree-  pasar is more appropriate for swallowing in humans than
>tragar
>	
>	-Rebecca
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>	        Sent: Mon 5/31/2004 6:01 PM
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>	        I just got back from Mexcio where we did a medical mission
>that included
>	        some special needs children, two of whom pretty clearly have
>dyspahgia.
>	        One is pretty classic for silent apsiration, the other has
>overt problems
>	        with thin liquids. Both are pretty well noursihed, but one
>missed therapy
>	        all winter due to infections adn the other is very severely
>congested all
>	        the time. Given the impossibility of getting studies, and
>I'm not even
>	        sure if the OTs or Speech therapists available to them can
>do any
>	        dysphagia therapy, all we could do was talk about trying
>thicker liquids
>	        and using water just between meals. (Oral hygeine excellent
>for both.)
>	       
>	        I really want to develop a resource in Spanish about
>pediatric dysphagia
>	        for these very sweet children adn families, but don't want
>to re-invent
>	        the wheel if there is something better out there I have not
>found...
>	       
>	        I just read these two and I think they are not quite what we
>need...
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>http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/handoutspanbackup.cfm?id=S558
>	        http://www.med.utah.edu/pated/handouts/handout.cfm?id=558
>	       
>	        To top that off, a native Spanish speaker we met there
>thought that espeso
>	        was not quite the right word for thickened liquid, and that
>many people
>	        would not relate to "tragar" as a verb for swallowing, as
>that is used to
>	        refer to animals swallowing and not people. Dificultad en
>pasar los
>	        liquidos or la comida might be better? Consistencia mas
>fuerte? Con mas
>	        densidad? And apparently the word dysfagia is not commonly
>understood...
>	        well duh, the average lay person won't know dysphagia in
>English either I
>	        guess.
>	       
>	        I already got the previous posts from the archive.
>	       
>	        Other suggestions??
>	       
>	        Vikki Stefans, M.D., pediatric physiatrist (rehab doc for
>kids) at UAMS
>	        and Arkansas Children's Hospital.  Working Mom of Sarah T.
>and Michael C.,
>	        and wife of Henry Stefans. Every mom is a working mom!- OK,
>dads too.
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