food temperature?

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

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usually room temperature ...."ready to eat".....they will choke on hot foods.

Puréed Foods for Swallowing Problems - EDIS -

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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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usually room temperature ...."ready to eat".....they will choke on hot foods.

Puréed Foods for Swallowing Problems - EDIS -

Thanks I wasn't sure for that but now I am after your help

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;).......:)
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