Journal Reviews

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Make food thy medicine!

10 March 2023 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus | Diet, Diet score, Head and neck cancer, Hearing loss, Mediterranean diet, Plant-based

This is a useful paper emphasising how diet affects health and various ENT conditions. We have known for many years the power of food as medicine. We also know that what we eat can affect our bodies in multiple ways...

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Can diet alone be used to treat laryngopharyngeal reflux?

3 November 2022 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Reflux, acid, beverage, diet, food, gastroesophageal, laryngopharyngeal, low-fat, natural, plant, protein, treatment

In this crossover observational study, a low-fat, low-quick-release sugar, high-protein, alkaline, and plant-based diet was investigated as a single treatment for laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR). Authors recruited 50 participants with demonstrated LPR on hypopharyngeal-oesophageal multichannel intraluminal impedance-pH-monitoring (HEMII-pH), off acid suppressive...

Risky behaviour: do care homes follow dysphagia recommendations?

5 November 2021 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aged care, barriers, dysphagia, rural, speech-language pathology, texture-modified diets

A huge proportion of elderly people living in residential care homes will develop dysphagia. In Australia this is estimated at close to two thirds of all residents. It is the role of the speech and language therapist to make recommendations...

Instrument assessment preferable over standard beside swallow to determine prevalence of aspiration

1 May 2019 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | aspiration, cough, diet modification, dysphagia, endoscopy, viscosity

Aspiration does not trigger the protective cough response in some patients. The patient’s response may vary according to fluid viscosities and volume. The authors of this prospective study investigated the prevalence of aspiration and response to aspiration of different viscosities...