Dysphagia is the difficulty in swallowing. And it indicates a delay in passage of solid foods or liquids from mouth to stomach. Dysphagia should be distinguished from odynophagia, which is discomfort or pain on swallowing hot and cold liquids and occasionally alcohol.
Causes of dysphagia
Acute causes
Inflammatory conditions
Example- Pharyngitis, Tonsillitis
Foreign body
Example-meat bolus, bone or other objects
Ingestion of caustic substances
Chronic causes
a) Oropharyngeal causes.
Neurological causes like- CVA, Parkinsonism, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, polyneuropathy.
Infections like-candida, herpes
Mechanical or compressive causes like-intervertebral disc degeneration, thyroid enlargement,
Pharyngeal pouch
Psychosomatic cause like globus hystericus
b) Oesophageal causes
Mechanical block like mediastinal neoplasm, esophageal stricture
Muscular in-coordination like achalasia, diffuse oesophageal spasm, oesophagitis
Symptoms and signs
Ò Inability to initiate swallowing properly
Ò Occurrence of nasopharyngeal regurgitation
Ò Aspiration of swallowed fluid into the air way
Ò Coughing while swallowing
Ò Weak voice
Ò Chest pain
Ò Heart burns
Homeopathic treatment
If dysphagia is due to mechanical causes, removal of the cause is the primary treatment.
If dysphagia due to obstruction by growth like mediastinal tumor, surgical removal followed by homeopathic treatment is the treatment of choice.
In all other cases symptomatic treatments with mental and physical totality as homeopathy implies.
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