oh well then good luck :thumbup:
Well now, that's the first time I've seen thickened water.
h: My resident was choking hazard/dysphagia with a mechanically soft diet, meaning everything was basically pudding... He liked it though. The fruit whip was actually fairly tempting.
Speaking of which, you wouldn't believe how much we have to know before we can do a dependent feed. Anatomy of the mouth and esophagus/trachea; signs and symptoms of dysphagia, aspiration, and aspiration pneumonia; mechanics of food digestion through the lungs as opposed to through the stomach; feeding strategies to counter dysphagia including chin tilt and head turn, basic diets in a nursing facility including regular, clear liquid, full liquid, soft diet, religious restricted, diabetic, sodium restricted, calorie restricted, mechanically altered, and various nutritional supplements and nourishments; and strategies for countering combative/cognitively impaired residents.