10 Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
Symptom #10: Trouble Swallowing
Muscular dystrophy conditions are largely misunderstood, and so are their symptoms. Studies on this subject are limited, and most of them focus on changes in muscle function, but patients experience other problems too.
Trouble swallowing (dysphagia) is a common, but usually dismissed, problem of muscular dystrophy. Swallowing has three stages: oral stage (chewing and fragmentation), pharyngeal stage (transition of food from the mouth to the upper opening of the esophagus), and the esophageal stage (progression of food toward stomach). Patients with muscular dystrophy tend to experience difficulties during the oral stage of swallowing.
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