dysphagia – Page 2 – Dysphagia Kitchen

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What’s that dangly bit called?

No, really. I’ve been asked this more than once in my career. It’s usually one of two anatomical components I’m being asked to name. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Stop it! I work in neurology, not urology. Here are some pictures of the dangly bits. Do you know what they areContinue reading “What’s that dangly bit called?”

Let’s go Viscgo!

Viscgo sticks. No, they’re not those glow sticks that you had at your 90s raves. But they are a super helpful way of testing the consistency of thickened liquids. IDDSI use a flow test. There’s some debate about how reliable this is, not least because getting hold of the right luer tip syringes can beContinue reading “Let’s go Viscgo!”

Feeding time at the zoo?

Are there things that happen at your workplace that drive you mad? Here are some of my bugbears; spouts on beakers people with dysphagia eating and drinking whilst lying flat or half asleep thickener use before a speech therapy assessment or screen pouring gravy on texture-modified meals mashing Level 6 soft and bite-sized diet mealsContinue reading “Feeding time at the zoo?”

IDDSI peasy, lemon squeezy?

Expert chefs experiment with IDDSI

Dying for a meal

The incidence of fatal choking incidents of people with learning disability is almost 100 times greater than in the general population.

There’s no such thing as a ‘soft diet’

Nor a sloppy diet. Nor a runny diet. Nor a chopped diet. Nor a mashed diet. Nor a dysphagic diet. Because the wrong texture diet can kill. Patient Safety Alert In 2018, a Patient Safety Alert (PSA)[i] was published over concerns regarding the term ‘soft diet’. They looked at National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS)Continue reading “There’s no such thing as a ‘soft diet’”