Swallowing disorder

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 disorders often occur due to pain caused by inflammation of the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus inflammation, ulcers, injuries, less frequently – glossopharyngeal or lingual pharyngeal nerve neuralgia. Sometimes swallowing becomes impaired when a tumor, scar tissue from an injury, or congenital defects affect the esophagus.

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