Odynophagia is the medical term for painful swallowing. Pain can be felt in your mouth, throat, or esophagus and painful swallowing may occur when drinking or eating food. Sometimes swallowing difficulties (known as dysphagia) can accompany the pain, but odynophagia is often a condition of its own. Pain can be felt in your mouth, throat, or esophagus and painful swallowing may occur when drinking or eating food Odynophagia vs Dysphagia Sometimes odynophagia is confused with d

The first concern with maintaining hydration with thickened liquids is whether the water present in the thickened liquid will be available for release into the patient’s system as usable hydration. If a significant portion of the water remains bound to the molecules of thickener and passes through the system, then the patient will be required to drink greater amounts of thickened liquid to achieve hydration goals. Sharpe et al. (2007) reported that all the starch- and gum-bas

Tests that further evaluate the upper portion of the swallow are the Modified Barium Swallow (involves eating and drinking foods and liquid with barium in it and then the swallowing process is visible on an X-ray) and the Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing also called a FEES (a lighted scope is inserted through the nose, and then the swallowing of foods and liquids is viewed on a monitor). Modified Barium Swallow (MBS) is known as the “gold standard” because of it