[Dysphagia] Chin tuck?

[kcopeland at sjmc.org (Copeland, Karen)]

And Metamucil is already "thick".....the OTHER "ultimate fix"!

Karen Copeland
Therapy Coordinator, Bernsen Rehabilitation
St. John Medical Center
918-744-2291
kcopeland@sjmc.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: dysphagia-bounces@b9.com [mailto:dysphagia-bounces@b9.com] On
Behalf Of CynthiaAAndrews@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:21 PM
To: dysphagia@b9.com
Subject: [Dysphagia] Chin tuck?

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





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