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[Dysphagia] Nectar vs honey
This is amusing, isn't it? Honey is honey, and I've yet to see honey
that varies in thickness from the next honey I've purchased. So you
can see why there's been an effort, through the National Dysphagia
Diet, to make all this uniform. And why an illustration of various
thicknesses dropping from a spoon are placed on the tin of ThickIt.
But there's still plenty of room for significant variation between
how one aide will thicken vs another. Or how long its left to stand.
Vera Karger, M.S., CCCS
Monroe, CT
vkargerslp at mac.com
On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Nancy Burnett wrote:
> It was my impression that the "honey thick" texture used in the
> study was extremely thick, perhaps significantly thicker than the
> "honey thick" texture used in many facilities.
>
> Nancy Burnett,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dysphagia-bounces at dysphagia.com [SMTP:dysphagia-
> bounces at dysphagia.com] On Behalf Of Irene Campbell-Taylor
> Sent: June 15, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: dysphagia at b9.com
> Subject: [Dysphagia] Nectar vs honey
>
> Since I never use thickened fluids I must confess to not having
> paid much attention to the various labela used. Reading the
> Logemann et al study on thickeners and chin down it appears that
> the thicker consistency (honey) was associated with a twofold
> increase in pneumonia. Is this correct - that the thicker
> consistency is honey and this was associated with increased
> respiratory dysfunction? One can't say that it "caused" pneumonia
> because there are insufficent data to support such a conclusion.
> The authors state that "It is likely that the increased pneumonia
> in the patients who remained on honey-thickened liquids for three
> months resulted from the reduced ability of the chest's ciliary
> action to clear thicker material from the lungs" that would seem to
> encourage the use of plain water instead.
>
> Dr I Campbell-Taylor
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