Hi All
Is there anyway to test the ability to swallow? My Dad is eating less and less. The day care centre phoned me to-day concerned, because he hadn't eaten anything while there, not even the soup or the ice cream and jelly. Yesterday dinner, in my house he only ate mashed potaoes and baked beans, to- night only mashed potatoes. I make mashed potaoes because I think he prefers it and it is easy for him.
In the not to distant past, he could swallow his meds without even water, now he is playing with them, especially the biggest tablet (quinine) and he now chews the tablets, I always give him water with the meds.
He doesn't like going to the day care centre, but Mum who also has AD, insists.
Is this a sort of rebellion or does he have a problem swallowing? Is there anyway I could find out and therefore deal with it?
Alfjess
Is there anyway to test the ability to swallow? My Dad is eating less and less. The day care centre phoned me to-day concerned, because he hadn't eaten anything while there, not even the soup or the ice cream and jelly. Yesterday dinner, in my house he only ate mashed potaoes and baked beans, to- night only mashed potatoes. I make mashed potaoes because I think he prefers it and it is easy for him.
In the not to distant past, he could swallow his meds without even water, now he is playing with them, especially the biggest tablet (quinine) and he now chews the tablets, I always give him water with the meds.
He doesn't like going to the day care centre, but Mum who also has AD, insists.
Is this a sort of rebellion or does he have a problem swallowing? Is there anyway I could find out and therefore deal with it?
Alfjess