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[Dysphagia] Neurontin etc
"v.cooper" <v.cooper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Many of them are in their 40s and 50s and have been eating a
lifetime. Now they are denied that and we are finding more abnormal chewing
behaviors, SI behavior etc.
Are any others seeing trends for acutes PEGing DD adults?
** Oh sure - because there is an assumption that because they are DD they MUST have impairment and if their particular manner of ingestion is "abnormal" in goes a g-tube with all of its attendant problems. Drives me nuts! Adults with DD who have been orally fed all their lives have no need of alternate means of nutrition unless, as with the typical population, some significant event occurs or another disease develops.
Irene.
Dr I Campbell-Taylor
Clinical Neuroscientist
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