The National Kidney Foundationâs tips to improve your heart and kidney health: 1  Get tested. 2  Eat a balanced, kidney and heart healthy diet. 3  Increase physical activity.  Reduce high cholesterol 1  levels. Keep high blood pressure under control.  If you have diabetes, keep your blood sugar well 1  controlled. Quit smoking.
A typical swallow involves several different muscles and nerves. Dysphagia can be caused by a difficulty anywhere in the swallowing process described above. There are two types of dysphagia: A symptom is something the patient feels and reports, while a sign is something other people, such as the doctor detect. For example, pain may be a symptom while a rash may be a sign.
Dysphagia is classified by the deficit area such as oral, pharyngeal, oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia. In some patients, no organic cause for dysphagia can be found, and these patients are defined as having functional dysphagia. Oropharyngeal dysphagia arises from abnormalities of muscles, nerves or structures of the oral cavity, pharynx, and upper esophageal sphincter. 1 Signs and symptoms.