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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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@jenniferhunter

@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

@jenniferhunter Thanks for remembering

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allegro | @allegro | May 11, 2019

I CAN'T THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR INPUT AND I AM CALLING OUR DR ON MONDAY TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT MY HUSBAND'S CHOKING.....HE SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE BATHROOM TRYING TO GET THE PHLEGM OUT OF HIS THROAT.....THEY TOL D HIM IT WAS CAUSED BY THE NUTRITION HE IS TAKING SIX TIMES A DAY......

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