[Dysphagia] Chin tuck?

[CynthiaAAndrews at aol.com (CynthiaAAndrews@aol.com)]

Hi!  My Mom has not been dx'd with  Dysphagia as of yet, but oh man, when she 
takes her pills in the morning, and  then takes her metamucil, I can hear her 
drowning as she chokes on  it.  I have sat with her and made her do the chin 
tuck and she is still  doing it.  Any other ideas?  Her doctors say she does 
not have a  swallowing disorder and yet I can't get any of them to do a MBS on 
her.   That is the only time she does it, in the morning.  She takes her pills 
 fine at night.  She drinks iced tea during the day, no  problem.  So perhaps 
she doesn't or something is lazy in the  morning.  But I'm afraid she's going 
to aspirate and then I'll have a  really sick, already medically fragile 
woman on my hands.  I don't know if  it would make any difference but she is on O2 
at night for emphysema and  CHF.
Any ideas, I would appreciate since I'm just  starting out and in school the 
chin tuck was the "ultimate fix".   

Cynthia Andrews M.A. 
Speech Language  Pathology