{"id":482,"date":"2010-12-01T16:42:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:15:41","slug":"common-swallowing-problems-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Common swallowing problems after stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following clip shows what happens\u00a0during a normal swallow and for someone with abnormal swallow after a stroke. This is known as <strong>Dysphagia <\/strong>It is\u00a0essential to follow any eating guidelines if the swallow is unsafe to prevent risk of food entering the lungs. This could\u00a0cause an <strong>Aspiration Pneumonia<\/strong> a serious complication of swallowing difficulties after stroke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notice how the blue liquid enters the trachea at the front of the neck in the abnormal swallow.This then leads down in to the lungs.<\/p>\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"\n\t\t\tid=\"fm_aspiration_swallow_716133521\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"flashmovie\"\n\t\t\twidth=\"650\"\n\t\t\theight=\"450\">\n\t<param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/aspiration_swallow.swf\" \/>\n\t<!--[if !IE]>-->\n\t<object\ttype=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"\n\t\t\tdata=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/aspiration_swallow.swf\"\n\t\t\tname=\"fm_aspiration_swallow_716133521\"\n\t\t\twidth=\"650\"\n\t\t\theight=\"450\">\n\t<!--<![endif]-->\n\t\t\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/images\/shared\/download_buttons\/get_flash_player.gif\" alt=\"Get Adobe Flash player\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<!--[if !IE]>-->\n\t<\/object>\n\t<!--<![endif]-->\n<\/object>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following clip shows what happens\u00a0during a normal swallow and for someone with abnormal swallow after a stroke. This is known as Dysphagia It is\u00a0essential to follow any eating guidelines if the swallow is unsafe to prevent risk of food &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[308,307],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-nutrition","tag-aspiration-pneumonia","tag-dysphagia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}