Dysphasia is a language disorder that can affect reading, writing, speech, and gesturing as well as the ability to produce and comprehend spoken language.
Types:
- Expressive dysphasiaDamage to the Broca’s area, the part of the brain responsible for producing speech, results in this condition, which impairs a person’s capacity to speak and articulate language coherently.
- Receptive dysphasia: is brought on by damage to the area of the brain responsible for understanding spoken and written language. The person can speak clearly, but they frequently speak meaninglessly and are unaware of their speech errors.
- Combined/global dysphasia:This kind of dysphasia is brought on by widespread damage to the language centers of the brain, and the person has trouble expressing themselves, speaking, and understanding language.
Symptoms
The most typical dysphasia symptoms include difficulty speaking, difficulty expressing oneself, and difficulty understanding spoken language. Because dysphasia makes it difficult for them to communicate, these individuals frequently exhibit withdrawal from social situations.
Verbal signs of dysphasia include:
- talking very slowly and laboriously
- When constructing a sentence, using poor grammar or omitting grammar
- using a small vocabulary and having trouble remembering words
- Although fluent, their speech is absurd.
Signs of dysphasia in relation to comprehension:
- Difficulty understanding spoken language
- comprehension challenges with fast speech or complex grammar
- long sentences are challenging to understand and remember
- Misinterpretation of sentences
Causes
Strokes are the most common cause of dysphasia. During a stroke, a blockage in the blood vessels of the brain can starve brain cells of blood and oxygen, causing them to die. This results in brain damage, which causes dysphasia. Dysphasia occurs when areas of the brain responsible for language production and comprehension are damaged.
More conditions that cause dysphasia include:
- diseases that affect the nervous system, like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
- Brain tumours
- Dementia
- Traumatic head injuries
- Epilepsy
- Migraines
Some epileptic or migraine-related dysphasia cases are only transient, returning to normal after the headaches and epileptic seizures pass.
Diagnosis
Doctors can perform several tests to identify the underlying cause of dysphasia if it occurs suddenly and is unrelated to a head injury, such as an MRI scan, physical examination, and reflex testing.
Prevention
Dysphasia is preventable, and since strokes are the most common cause, people with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes can take steps to lower cholesterol, manage stress, and regulate blood sugar levels to lessen their risk of both a stroke and dysphasia.
Exercises used to improve speech and language include:​
- Exercises to distinguish sounds
- Pronunciation exercises
- Exercises for the auditory memory include listening, information processing, and recall
- To improve vocabulary, do some exercises.
- Exercises in semantics to enhance context and meaning understanding
- For instance, practice using the proper pronouns and prepositions when forming sentences using morpho-syntactic structures.
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT
Lachesis and Hyoscyamus – When Swallowing Liquids is Difficult
Lachesis and Hyoscyamus are effective treatments for dysphagia when it affects the ability to swallow liquids. Lachesis is used when the patient experiences pain and swelling in the throat, choking when drinking liquids, and difficulty swallowing liquids or even saliva.
Kali Carb and Alumina – When Swallowing Solids is Difficult
Alumina works well when swallowing of solid food is difficult, painful, and there is extreme dryness in the throat. The throat feels plugged. A patient needing Alumina can drink warm beverages with ease. Kali Carb may also work well in cases of dysphagia from the stricture of the esophagus. In such patients, food may also go into the windpipe.
Baptisia and Baryta Carb – When There is Inability to Swallow Solids
Some of the best medications for dysphagia are Baptisia and Baryta Carb, which are helpful in situations where a person can only consume liquids and gags when solid food is introduced.
Belladonna and Cactus – When the Patient Has To Drink to Swallow
When a patient with dysphagia needs to drink water to help them swallow food, Belladonna and Cactus are both important treatments to consider. Belladonna is effective when the patient needs to drink water to help them swallow food because they also have a tendency to choke easily and the food may go down the wrong way.
Cactus is highly recommended when a person needs to drink a lot of water to get food to move down the esophagus, and heat and constriction in the throat may also be symptoms indicating the use of the homeopathic medicine Cactus. Belladonna is a medication for painless dysphagia.
Anacardium and Hyoscyamus – For Dysphagia with Choking
Anacardium and Hyoscyamus are the medications that are best for dysphagia with choking while swallowing. Anacardium is used when choking is easy while eating or drinking anything, and scraping and rawness in the throat are other significant symptoms for choosing this medication.
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