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food temperature?

How Celcius degree should be served food, to a patient with swallowing problems.

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    However, there are two things that make the swallowing reflex work better.

    Taste: a sharp taste stimulates the reflex better than a bland one; orange juice better than milk

    Temperature: room-temperature is the least stimulating temperature. Cold (ice cream, sherbet, iced drinks) or hot (not hot enough to burn) will work better.

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    GrTea you know I love ya...LOL.......All sources recommend room slightly above or below room temperature foods for they can't manipulate the hot/cold food around in their mouth and in their attempt to move the food they aspirate.....or if there is decreased sensation the danger is burning/scalding the oral cavity/mucous membranes.

    http://www.nursingtimes.net/feeding-problems-in-elderly-patients/201029.article

    http://www.brainline.org/content/2010/08/swallow-safely_pageall.html

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    All the speech-language pathology folks recommend stimulating the swallow reflex as many ways as is safely possible. We may be saying the same things in different ways.

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    LOL....I'm sure we are......:)

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    ;).......:)
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