Re: Swallowing-standing/feinting

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In a message dated 07/18/2001 11:15:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

b.werre@... writes:

<< Does he have any movement problems or swallowing problems? >>

Just curious, my mom has Parkinsons or parkinsonian symptoms, and problems

with feinting (that doesnt look right), when she stands. Is this a ShyDrager

'thing' or just something that pops up? And when it comes to eating, she

will chew solid food till the cows come home but wont swallow. they did

swallow tests with the results being that she has no problems swallowing.

Now she is on a pureed diet and is doing good feeding herself and swallowing

(she wasnt before, even with pureed unless I fed her and then gave her a sip

of water after every bite). Any ideas about that also? Thanks for the help.

Hope I havent asked to much at once.

[Guest guest]

,

Hopefully one of our speech therapists will reply to this. But it sounds as if

your mom is not using her tongue properly. Does the food get caught between the

teeth and the cheek? Did a therapist watch the test and give her the stuff to

eat? They should have tested her with different consistancies of food. Speech

therapy can help early swallowing problems greatly.

YES! Fainting on standing is a classic Shy-Drager Syndrome symptom. The BP

drops (orthostatic hypotension) and causes the patient to faint. Often when the

patient lies down the BP shoots up.

Take care, Bill and Charlotte

opti1@... wrote:

> In a message dated 07/18/2001 11:15:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> b.werre@... writes:

>

> << Does he have any movement problems or swallowing problems? >>

>

> Just curious, my mom has Parkinsons or parkinsonian symptoms, and problems

> with feinting (that doesnt look right), when she stands. Is this a ShyDrager

> 'thing' or just something that pops up? And when it comes to eating, she

> will chew solid food till the cows come home but wont swallow. they did

> swallow tests with the results being that she has no problems swallowing.

> Now she is on a pureed diet and is doing good feeding herself and swallowing

> (she wasnt before, even with pureed unless I fed her and then gave her a sip

> of water after every bite). Any ideas about that also? Thanks for the help.

> Hope I havent asked to much at once.

>

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