Voice & Swallowing Disorders
Symptoms include;
– Difficulty swallowing
– Pain with swallowing
– Foreign body sensation in the throat
– Mucus in the throat/ post nasal drip
– Throat clearing
– Hoarseness
If you have any of these symptoms, it could be due to another condition such as;
– Allergies
– Sinusitis
– Inflammation in your nose/sinuses
– Reflux (LPR/GERD)
– Vocal cord lesions (polyps, nodules, granulomas, cysts, papillomas etc)
– Muscle tension dysphonia
– We must rule out other causes as well (malignancy or other voice/swallowing disorders)
When a patient presents with voice and swallowing disorders, we make sure to do a thorough exam with a procedure called “Flexible Laryngoscopy”.
A small camera is used to look in the nose, throat and larynx.
(We anesthetize the nose with a spray first)