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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Lou Gehrig’s disease

Caregivers | Last Active: Aug 10 9:15am | Replies (109)
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I remember using Thick-it which can thicken fluids to make them easier to swallow. While I was in rehab, the therapist used an electrical stimulation device on my throat. Not fun, but it helped! Get a referral to outpatient therapy and ask to see a speech therapist. Worked for me., good luck!

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Jennifer, Volunteer Mentor | @jenniferhunter | May 11, 2019

@allegro Hi Jan. A speech therapist can help with retraining swallowing. My dad did that and it may have helped a little. They do swallowing tests like a moving X-ray to watch how it works. We did use Thick-it (dry powder) when my dad could still swallow and another one called Simply Thick which worked better because it was a gel in a pump bottle. Here are some links.
http://thickit.com/
https://www.simplythick.com/Bottles-Pumps
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660277/

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lioness | @lioness | May 11, 2019

@becsbuddy Thank you Mind just couldn't think of it That sounds like fun having that electric on your neck ,ouch

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