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Pseudodysphagia, in its severe form, is the irrational fear of swallowing or, in its minor form, of choking. The symptoms are psychosomatic , so while the sensation of difficult swallowing feels authentic to the individual, it is not based on a real physical symptom.
Some patients have limited awareness of their dysphagia, so lack of the symptom does not exclude an underlying disease. [11] When dysphagia goes undiagnosed or untreated, patients are at a high risk of pulmonary aspiration and subsequent aspiration pneumonia secondary to food or liquids going the wrong way into the lungs.
Dysphagia can happen at any age, with about 1 in 25 U.S. adults experiencing it every year, Dr. Abu-Ghanem says. It’s more common in older adults. It’s more common in older adults.
Phagophobia is a psychogenic dysphagia, a fear of swallowing. [1] It is expressed in various swallowing complaints without any apparent physical reason detectable by physical inspection and laboratory analyses.
Jade Collett, then 22, noticed her foot was turning outwards during a night of drinking with pals, but initially dismissed the symptoms a "twinged nerve" When her foot continued to hurt, she ...
Pseudobulbar palsy is the result of damage of motor fibers traveling from the cerebral cortex to the lower brain stem. This damage might arise in the course of a variety of neurological conditions that involve demyelination and bilateral corticobulbar lesions.
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (/ ˌ nj uː m ə n oʊ ˌ ʌ l t r ə ˌ m aɪ k r ə ˈ s k ɒ p ɪ k ˌ s ɪ l ɪ k oʊ v ɒ l ˌ k eɪ n oʊ ˌ k oʊ n i ˈ oʊ s ɪ s / ⓘ [1] [2]) is a 45-letter word coined in 1935 by the then-president of the National Puzzlers' League, Everett M. Smith.