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Eating Can Be Risky Business for COPD Patients
So slow down, chew your food well and,
use the exhale-swallow-exhale pattern.
This helps so you dont inhale food particles.
Much love to all of you,
Enjoy your dinner!
Holly
Poor coordination between swallowing and breathing in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may increase risk of aspiration pneumonia and exacerbations, researchers warned.
COPD patients swallowed solid food during inhalation twice as often as healthy individuals (P=0.002), Roxann Diez Gross, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues found.
Patients inhaled after swallowing soft food four times more often (P
So slow down, chew your food well and,
use the exhale-swallow-exhale pattern.
This helps so you dont inhale food particles.
Much love to all of you,
Enjoy your dinner!
Holly
Poor coordination between swallowing and breathing in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may increase risk of aspiration pneumonia and exacerbations, researchers warned.
COPD patients swallowed solid food during inhalation twice as often as healthy individuals (P=0.002), Roxann Diez Gross, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues found.
Patients inhaled after swallowing soft food four times more often (P
correct Holly. I have more and more trouble with inhaling food, instead of swallowing it.
Thought it was just me. I have to be more
careful, now. Thank you for the post!