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minus-squareflickerlinkfedilink11•7 months agoI was caring for someone on a thickened liquids restriction and it is… awful. So many great things are made not great by thickening.
minus-square@mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoOh this real? I assumed it was AI. Excuse me while I vomit profusely.
minus-squareflickerlinkfedilink6•edit-27 months agoPeople who have survived things like a stroke might have trouble swallowing liquids without choking, so you have to thicken them. ETA; I think memory care patients go that way towards the end, too, like Alzheimer’s.
minus-square@mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoInteresting, thanks, I was wondering.
I was caring for someone on a thickened liquids restriction and it is… awful. So many great things are made not great by thickening.
Oh this real? I assumed it was AI. Excuse me while I vomit profusely.
People who have survived things like a stroke might have trouble swallowing liquids without choking, so you have to thicken them.
ETA; I think memory care patients go that way towards the end, too, like Alzheimer’s.
Interesting, thanks, I was wondering.