Pain in swallowing

Swallowing disorder, or dysphagia, occurs when a patient experiences pain while swallowing, sometimes they cannot swallow at all, food may enter the nose, trachea. Swallowing disorder often arises due to pain caused by inflammation of the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus inflammation, ulcers, injuries, less commonly – glossopharyngeal or lingual pharyngeal nerve neuralgia. Sometimes swallowing is impaired when the esophagus is affected by a tumor, scar tissue after injury, congenital defects.

Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology