Affected by stroke, patients have difficulty swallowing, which affects food intake and nutrient absorption. Once a patient inhales food into trachea or lungs by mistake, it is easy to cause choking cough and aspiration pneumonia, which can be life-threatening in severe cases.
How can we prevent patients from inhaling by mistake?
1, choose the right position.
When eating, patients should generally choose an angle of more than 45 degrees between their bodies and the ground, which is the safest way to eat. They can also take a 30-degree supine position and lean forward to eat.
After eating, try to keep the original posture for half an hour to an hour to prevent food reflux from causing suffocation and endangering the health of patients.
2. Choose your food carefully.
Try to choose mushy food with uniform density and appropriate consistency, which is not easy to disperse, so as to prevent food residues from falling and causing patients to inhale by mistake.
The choice of food should be nutritious, such as more high protein and vitamins to supplement the needs of patients. When cooking, the food should be as delicious as possible to increase the appetite of patients.
3, the amount of food should be careful.
You should also pay special attention to the amount of food you eat. Chew slowly as much as possible, and the eating speed should not be too fast, so as to leave enough chewing time for patients to fully swallow food, so as to avoid food remaining in the mouth and causing aspiration.
At the same time, patients with dysphagia should pay attention to the following points
1, in the process of eating, family members can use a spoon to increase the strength of the tongue to stimulate the patient's swallowing.
2. You can do some empty swallowing training after meals.
3. After aspiration and coughing, the foreign body should be sucked out as soon as possible. For relatively light and conscious patients, try to make them cough up, and family members can help, pat the back and so on, and discharge foreign bodies as soon as possible.
In short, in the face of patients with dysphagia, we should take care of them carefully, try to make them eat more, supplement the nutrients needed by the body and provide energy support for the recovery of the body.
In the process of eating, we should also choose the correct posture, pay more attention to the patient's situation and prevent coughing.
At the same time, we should also pay attention to exercise the swallowing ability of patients and strive to restore swallowing ability as soon as possible.
After suffocation, measures should be taken in time to contact the hospital urgently to prevent accidents.
Pay attention to the patient's condition from all aspects, take care of the patient's body as much as possible, and combine swallowing rehabilitation training to restore the patient's swallowing ability as much as possible, so as to achieve normal swallowing as soon as possible.