Some of the conditions that may occur in different areas of the human digestive system, which we hear often, are disturbances in swallowing or swallowing difficulty, difficulty swallowing, these disorders and difficulties can occur in several stages of the first when chewing food, From mouth to throat, or where food is squeezed to the bottom of the throat where the respiratory tract is closed to prevent the occurrence of choking, which is called pharyngeal stage, the latest in the esophageal stage when the muscles spread and contract so that the food is transferred to the stomach.
The difficulty in swallowing includes solids, liquids or both, taking into consideration the difference between difficulty or difficulty in digestion and between painful swallowing, which is the pain a person may feel during swallowing, and also between the so-called hysterical tip It is a sensation of a lump in the throat.
This difficulty swallowing occurs in the case of a problem of one of the parts of the Tide enter the stages of the swallowing process, and these cases are characterized by several and fall into the following reasons:
The most common cases of difficulty swallowing are caused by difficulty swallowing in the esophagus, where the person often feels that the water or the top of the food stuck in the chest or lower throat and the reasons for this are: the disorder in the sphincter of the esophagus, the spread of contraction in the esophagus, Esophagus, esophageal contraction, esophageal spasm, esophageal edema, cancerous tumor, esophageal tissue damage due to rehydration of the gastric ulcer, scleroderma, or a small “pod” in the throat.
The difficulty of swallowing is also a difficulty in swallowing infants and children due to the presence of diseases in the nervous system such as cerebral palsy, rabbit lip, and also the problems of growth in early birth, weight loss or growth.
Causes of difficulty swallowing in the mouth and pharynx caused by some of the neuromuscular diseases, which can lead to difficulty swallowing, where it is possible to double this injury through the exposure of the person to the throat and suffocation or cough during swallowing food or liquids, and add to this cause also damage in Nerves, which are usually produced after a person has an accident, a spinal injury, a head injury, or a stroke.
The rest of the difficulties that occur swallowing, which are not covered by the above mentioned reasons, where there is no justification, nor any organic cause, such as difficulty swallowing during the treatment of drugs, and that in case of grief or psychological tension may feel something What is in the throat and in fact there is nothing in the throat, where this feeling disappears once the sadness or psychological factor.
Treatment of difficulty swallowing:
Treatment depends on both the cause of difficulty swallowing, symptoms, and the area of difficulty swallowing, which is a major role in treatment.
The methods of treatment are through exercises that are subject to the muscles and that improve their movement, and take certain positions of sitting can help the person swallowing, not to mention the role played by the types of foods in the disposal of difficulty in swallowing,