DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Feeding difficulties
Dysphagia
Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia. It is derived from the Greek dys meaning bad or disordered, and phago meaning "eat". It is a sensation that suggests difficulty in the passage of solids or liquids from the mouth to the stomach. Dysphagia is distinguished from other symptoms including odynophagia, which is defined as painful swallowing, and globus, which is the sensation of a lump in the throat...
Feeding difficulties - List of case studies
- List of Symptoms
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of the uvula Diarrhea Diarrhoic alvus Difficulties in managing house work Difficulties in verbal memory ... swelling Faint rash Falls Fatigue Feeding difficulties Feeding problems Feeling hot or cold ...
- Psychomotor retardation due to spinal amyotrophy
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are very important to track. Given the history of feeding difficulties , I would suspect the patient will be falling or has ...
- Cricotracheal resection as treatment for laryngeal stenosis cotton grade IV
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stenosis) cause severe breathing and communication difficulties. questions: ... at first, including managing the prosthesis (cannula) and feeding. Patient’s growth rate was very slow, despite attention by her ...