Recurrent dysphagia after esophageal SEMS?
👉 Don’t assume tumor progression.

📸 X-ray: Stent migrated into stomach

💡 Most common cause: stent migration

🔧 Next step:
✔ Endoscopy
✔ Retrieval ± re-stenting (better fixation)

🎯 Restore swallowing, improve QOL

#EsophagealCancer #GI #Endoscopy #Oncology #Dysphagia #GastroAGI

Retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction prevents upper‑esophageal gas release, producing significant aerodigestive symptoms. Emerging evidence shows targeted Botox injection can restore burping via neuromuscular retraining. #RCPD #Dysphagia #Otolaryngology #SciComm #ScienceQuickly

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/daily-misery-why-some-people-cant-burp-and-how-botox-comes-to-the-rescue/

Even though I can't swallow due to #dysphagia related to my #Parkinsons plus MSA, I just spent a few minutes gargling a shot of Black Label Scotch. It's my "treat."

Every now and then I do it because I like the taste.

Every day, I do it with strong, hot coffee that is as hot as I can stand it.

When Penny eats her dinner, I also join her at the table, and the place setting, esp if we have company, is similar to this previous image I posted.

I also have a kit like this for if we go out to dinner to a restaurant. I have a long extension that comes out from under my shirt and I then push my meal through, at a "bite" pace similar to the other people eating food. I mainly do it because the other people I am with don't feel as bad eating in front of me, which I got over in 2012

BLOG | Betrayed By Our Nation... The PIP Wars Are On | Phoenix DragonQueen

The government attacks on Disability Benefits, #PIP on Disabled People is horrifying. I'm a permanent wheelchair user, who can’t use the toilet, needs her mother to look after her, unable to leave the house, has #Dysphagia, is #paralyzed, in agony, has Functional Seizures, #FND & #Fibromyalgia. Severely #disabled — and ALL because I got PNEUMONIA aged 32...
😡☹️😖😢🫣
#disability #disabilityrights
https://phoenixdragonqueen.webador.co.uk/blog/2433180_betrayed-by-our-nation-the-pip-wars-are-on

Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE): Lessons Learned from Medicaid and the UVA EoE Cohort

https://www.youtube.com/live/wt4gW_asI7g?si=m-jNljWnzwM5FH9X

presentation by Dr Emily McGowan at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Feb 9, 2024

- EoE incidence increasing [18:28]

- EoE is induced in mouse model with SDS, a detergent used in toothpaste. [21:28]

- even when eosinophils are cleared with anti-IL-5 Ab, symptoms remain [29:00]

comment: I & many others with MCAS have dysphagia. If eosinophils are at the party, it is usually b/c mast cells invited them. Also, MCAS affects women more.

- they usually take more than 5 biopsy samples when trying to diagnose EoE [16:10]

- EoE is IgG4 mediated [44:26]

- EoE associated with high socioeconomic status; Dr McGowan suspects this is due to underdiagnosis in ppl w/ less access to care.

comment: it would be interesting to know of EoE is associated with high PFAS burden, which is higher in ppl w/ higher income. PFAS have surfactant properties, like SDS. Also, there's increasing use of powerful surfactants in herbicides due to development of herbicide resistance.

- the Cytosponge for minimally invasive diagnostic testing [37:56]

#Allergy #Immunology #Gastroeneterology #EosinophilicEsophagitis #Eosinophils #MastCells #MCAS #dysphagia

why am i coughing?

body: you drank WATER

im SUPPOSED to drink water!

body: YOU DRANK IT WRONG

its YOUR job to make sure it doesnt go down the wrong hole!!!

body: *charlie horse in random muscle*

ACCCK FUCK YOU

#gettingold #thirtygoingoneighty #dysphagia #thehumanbody

Pre-hospitalization dysphagia and feeding tube placement in #NursingHome residents with advanced #Dementia.

"...possibility that feeding tubes are inserted in some individuals without #dysphagia, but instead in those with a temporary reduction in function secondary to an #infection..."

#Geriatrics #MedMastodon #Nutrition #Health #Care

https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.18729?campaign=wolearlyview