Pureed food questions....
Well things have escalated unfortunately and dad has problems with choking on food. I've posted on the thread:
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/showthread.php?t=24700
But asking questions here as I don't want to hijack someone else's thread.
The home now want to change dad to pureed food, in fact they just called me yesterday to say they'd done it. We are waiting for speech therapist but my guess is that the change is due to risk/health and safety. It was us who pointed out issues with choking while feeding at first.
Obviously I'm concerned and a bit upset as the problem lies with dad struggling to chew solid properly as his teeth are not hurting when he chews or just functioning properly. The dentist told me not to worry and he will be able to chew for a long time even with teeth as they are .....grrrrr.
It is just upsetting that he could chew (if his teeth had been sorted) but is going onto pureed food because of neglect on his teeth. I knew this would happen sometime as many on his home are on pureed, but food is so important, one of the only things dad still enjoys.
Anyway, enough of my moaning, it is about the man. I have a list of issues to bring up today with home and want to be clear as possible to make sure we are doing the right thing..
So if anyone has any experience/thoughts on these specific issues I'd appreciate help. I've been told that minced food is a possibility instead of pureed - not by the home unfortunately.
Regarding pureed vs minced food.
- How would the home mince the food? Just not something I have seen others being fed unless I missed it?
- What are the advantages of minced over pureed. Is it flavour, avoiding constipation etc?
- Lastly, I'm trying to put a list of soft food that he can still eat - the sweet stuff if easy! but savoury is more limited.
I'll get more information off home today but want to get as much information as possible together before the SaLT referral
Thanks in advance for your help
Kind Regard
Craig