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Michael, swallowing difficulties in a PD sufferer is always a serious problem. Please let your dad's doctor know about this as soon as possible and ask that a swallowing evaluations be done. People with neurological diseases of any kind are prone to swallowing difficulties. The symptoms of swallowing problems can be easily missed by families or CGs - usually the person involved will cough frequently during meal time or while drinking fluids. The consequence of swallowing problems is aspiration pneumonia, which is caused by food entering the lungs as a result of choking. There are exercises that can be done to improve the swallowing, but a swallowing evaluation needs to be done first to determine the degree of swallowing difficulty. ------ Mary Ann Ryan (CG Jamie 62/22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn