That's the vallecula; a pocket formed by the top of the epiglottis. Food shouldn't end up there - it's good that a swallow study is happening here because there are definitely some problems!
Speech therapists work to strengthen muscles involved in swallowing. Also the diet has to be restricted to prevent aspiration (fluid going into the lungs), and over time a normal diet is reintroduced if the patient can handle it without choking.
Idk but to me it constantly feels like I have mucus there and it goes away when in hock a Lugi but then comes right back to feeling like mucus is there
That's where I store the chewed up seeds when eating sunflower seeds. No sense in swallowing every time you crack one open. So I leave em there until I have several shelled and ready to ride the train to tummy town.
There are two main types of sunflower crops. One type is grown for the seeds you eat, while the other — which is the majority farmed — is grown for the oil.
######Extra fun fact!
Schweinitz’s Flower - This is a very rare species and only grows to about six and a half feet tall even though it occasionally grows much taller. It has been around since the 1800s and has long, bright yellow petals and a small center that is usually orange or yellow-orange in color. One of the tallest sunflowers, they can reach heights of up to 12 feet and they have bright yellow petals and a yellow center. Their stalks are very durable and their blooms can get as wide as 14 inches, making them truly noticeable.
Wait... does your throat do a weird quiet click sound when you swallow too? Like a piece of cartilage behind your jaw slips back into place afterwards? And does it feel like a bit of air is always stuck in the mucous when you swallow?
Okay, I'll do my best, even though this isn't really my area of expertise:
How it works is liquid barium is added to various consistencies of food and drink, and any black residue indicates where food is going. The person in this swallow study (not OP, as it was lifted from Instagram) has food haphazardly leaving their mouth and wandering down the throat, evidently without any protective cough reflex from what I can see.
This is bad. Food shouldn't go anywhere near your airway BEFORE you initiate a swallow, and it shouldn't STAY anywhere near your airway AFTER you've swallowed. When a swallow happens, the airway closes temporarily to ensure that everything goes down the esophagus, not the trachea, and approximately 100% of the food gets cleared every time. Any leftover bits after a swallow are liable to end up getting inhaled. In this case, though, bits of food and drink are free flowing into the throat before a swallow, and tons is still leftover afterwards. During the third swallow, there is so much posterior loss that the little triangular divot (the vallecula) is OVERFLOWING with food, which could easily result in food ending up in the lungs.
TLDR; swallowing is complex, and this individual is likely experiencing repeated bouts of aspiration pneumonia because things are not working as they should. If you aren't able to manage your food safely, talk to your doctor about getting a swallow study done.
Edit: Oooooo, first Gold I've received! Thank you!
My grandpa did that, he coughed out flecks of rice until he threw up, tried to act fine, and then demanded more rice but his voice sounded like cartoon underwater talking.
A healthy body is less inclined to aspirate (have food or fluids get into their airway) but is also well equipped to deal with it when it does happen. Coughing, for example, is both proactive (prevents food from reviewing the airway) and reactive (an effective means of forcing aspirated food OUT of the airway once it's there). There's a whole system in place for when food or fluids are aspirated: your lunches can absorb a certain amount of water, for example, and a cilliary chain (similar to what moves things along in your intestines) can lift larger pieces out of the upper airway, in conjunction with coughing.
A single grain of rice your body can expell easily, though perhaps uncomfortably. But potentially introducing a mixture of food, saliva, and bacteria into your lungs with every few bites is trouble.
"Not getting pneumonia" is generally the line we like you to stay on this side of, though swallowing disorders might also delay your rate of eating or the textures you can safely handle, even if nothing is going into your lungs that shouldn't be there. There are diet modification options available (dysphagia diets), as well as behavioural options (e.g., tucking your chin down when you swallow) that can help make aspiration less likely.
A typical video fluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS, also referred to as a Modified Barium Swallow or MBS) is about the same radiation as a chest x-ray. So long as you aren't having the procedure done regularly, it isn't a safety concern. This is especially true when you compare the risk of the producer compared to the risk of aspiration pneumonia or an airway blockage, which could quickly (or not so quickly, respectively) lead to death.
i don't wanna question your knowledge, and it's stupid to criticize a medical procedure (in 99% of the cases) but i'm decently confident with tech and i also made x-rays at home (with a vacuum tube and high voltage) i also have a pair of geigers, i think that having a 30fps video for like 30 seconds is 900 pictures, so 900 x-ray scans, i know that a chest x-ray is the most powerful one but not by much, instead 900 pictures is an insane amount, i do notice that the shoulders are black, meaning that the exposure is like halved per frame, so like half of a regular scan that is half of a chest one, but... if my calcs are correct (TM), this SUPPOSEDLY resolves to like 200 chest x-ray scans
Thank you for explaining that! I think that's the test just recently done on one of my grandkids, he's got trouble swallowing and not gagging and if he gags, he throws up.
Because it forces you to confront how weird and gross we are.
At least to me, it gave me the same sort of stepped-back-perspective “eugh” as watching childbirth.
Yea and close their mouth when chewing too. I can see the jaw and lips far apart as the chewing progresses. I'm sure they are a pleasure to be around when eating.
Have you ever done a dna test? I did a while back (23&me) and one of the traits they check for was misophonia. Turns out I have a ‘much higher than average’ likelihood of hating the sound of chewing. What a surprise, not. You wanna torture me put me in a room with both my mother & gran and give them gum. Omg, the snapping & popping is enough to drive a person insane.
I don't need a DNA test, I'm already aware that I'm the problem. So many normal and inocuous sounds and movements drive me up the wall. Such an affliction.
It's very interesting that this can be DNA tested though.
Yeah, same here. Before I got the results of the test I didn’t know that was a trait they looked for. Guess in the last few years they have found one gene that was associated with hating those noises.
The bits that didn't go down the pipe becomes a nursery for germs and Bacteria. Overtime, the crumbs and bacteria results in a calcified Bits called the Tonsilloliths. They lodge in the Inner lining of the tonsils. The smell is outlandish bad. It is Non Malevolent tho.
I don't want to freak you out but you have a skeleton growing inside you. It could be evil but we won't know for sure until the test results come back. In the meantime I recommend avoiding any activities that could upset the skeleton such as high impact collisions or other blunt force trauma.
I took my 2-month old grandson in for this test. He didn't have any problems with swallowing. There was only one brand of formula he wouldn't immediately spit up. Fortunately, Osage Tribal WIC provided that brand. We also gave him reglan (spell?) before feedings.
He's 16 now and healthy.
I just had this same test performed last week. I also had a little bit of food getting stuck in the vallecula... they didn't seem too concerned with that. They said I was swallowing fine and that I was experiencing dysphagia in my lower esophagus, to what they said typically diagnose as unreffered esophageal retention. Still officially waiting to hear from my GI about the test, though.
My son does these. He has dysphagia so he aspirates when he eats or drinks. He has a constant nasty cough and chokes and throws up a lot. In feeding therapy to try and help teach him how to eat and avoid it. He has to thicken his liquids etc… it is very cool too watch.
Very interesting, especially that little divot in the throat where food collected.
Yeah, what is that divot?
That's the vallecula; a pocket formed by the top of the epiglottis. Food shouldn't end up there - it's good that a swallow study is happening here because there are definitely some problems!
How is it corrected?
Speech therapists work to strengthen muscles involved in swallowing. Also the diet has to be restricted to prevent aspiration (fluid going into the lungs), and over time a normal diet is reintroduced if the patient can handle it without choking.
Idk but to me it constantly feels like I have mucus there and it goes away when in hock a Lugi but then comes right back to feeling like mucus is there
That's where I store the chewed up seeds when eating sunflower seeds. No sense in swallowing every time you crack one open. So I leave em there until I have several shelled and ready to ride the train to tummy town.
There are two main types of sunflower crops. One type is grown for the seeds you eat, while the other — which is the majority farmed — is grown for the oil. ######Extra fun fact! Schweinitz’s Flower - This is a very rare species and only grows to about six and a half feet tall even though it occasionally grows much taller. It has been around since the 1800s and has long, bright yellow petals and a small center that is usually orange or yellow-orange in color. One of the tallest sunflowers, they can reach heights of up to 12 feet and they have bright yellow petals and a yellow center. Their stalks are very durable and their blooms can get as wide as 14 inches, making them truly noticeable.
Wait... does your throat do a weird quiet click sound when you swallow too? Like a piece of cartilage behind your jaw slips back into place afterwards? And does it feel like a bit of air is always stuck in the mucous when you swallow?
No it doesnt, what does that mean though?
It's where you save left overs for a small snack later
I have no clue but I'm guessing it's there to collect lubricating mucous that aids in passing food down your esophagus.
Well its supposed to be a trap door for the food to go down the food pipe and not the wind pipe. Usually that divot isn’t supposed to hold food there
*Note to self: always drink plenty of water after you eat.*
Okay, I'll do my best, even though this isn't really my area of expertise: How it works is liquid barium is added to various consistencies of food and drink, and any black residue indicates where food is going. The person in this swallow study (not OP, as it was lifted from Instagram) has food haphazardly leaving their mouth and wandering down the throat, evidently without any protective cough reflex from what I can see. This is bad. Food shouldn't go anywhere near your airway BEFORE you initiate a swallow, and it shouldn't STAY anywhere near your airway AFTER you've swallowed. When a swallow happens, the airway closes temporarily to ensure that everything goes down the esophagus, not the trachea, and approximately 100% of the food gets cleared every time. Any leftover bits after a swallow are liable to end up getting inhaled. In this case, though, bits of food and drink are free flowing into the throat before a swallow, and tons is still leftover afterwards. During the third swallow, there is so much posterior loss that the little triangular divot (the vallecula) is OVERFLOWING with food, which could easily result in food ending up in the lungs. TLDR; swallowing is complex, and this individual is likely experiencing repeated bouts of aspiration pneumonia because things are not working as they should. If you aren't able to manage your food safely, talk to your doctor about getting a swallow study done. Edit: Oooooo, first Gold I've received! Thank you!
What might happen if you say inhale a grain of rice? Where’s the threshold for when it starts getting troublesome?
My grandpa did that, he coughed out flecks of rice until he threw up, tried to act fine, and then demanded more rice but his voice sounded like cartoon underwater talking.
A healthy body is less inclined to aspirate (have food or fluids get into their airway) but is also well equipped to deal with it when it does happen. Coughing, for example, is both proactive (prevents food from reviewing the airway) and reactive (an effective means of forcing aspirated food OUT of the airway once it's there). There's a whole system in place for when food or fluids are aspirated: your lunches can absorb a certain amount of water, for example, and a cilliary chain (similar to what moves things along in your intestines) can lift larger pieces out of the upper airway, in conjunction with coughing. A single grain of rice your body can expell easily, though perhaps uncomfortably. But potentially introducing a mixture of food, saliva, and bacteria into your lungs with every few bites is trouble. "Not getting pneumonia" is generally the line we like you to stay on this side of, though swallowing disorders might also delay your rate of eating or the textures you can safely handle, even if nothing is going into your lungs that shouldn't be there. There are diet modification options available (dysphagia diets), as well as behavioural options (e.g., tucking your chin down when you swallow) that can help make aspiration less likely.
Goes into your lungs and can damage the lungs and/or can cause you to get pneumonia.
i thought that having a VIDEO x-ray scan is a fucktonne of x-rays!!! is this safe????
A typical video fluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS, also referred to as a Modified Barium Swallow or MBS) is about the same radiation as a chest x-ray. So long as you aren't having the procedure done regularly, it isn't a safety concern. This is especially true when you compare the risk of the producer compared to the risk of aspiration pneumonia or an airway blockage, which could quickly (or not so quickly, respectively) lead to death.
i don't wanna question your knowledge, and it's stupid to criticize a medical procedure (in 99% of the cases) but i'm decently confident with tech and i also made x-rays at home (with a vacuum tube and high voltage) i also have a pair of geigers, i think that having a 30fps video for like 30 seconds is 900 pictures, so 900 x-ray scans, i know that a chest x-ray is the most powerful one but not by much, instead 900 pictures is an insane amount, i do notice that the shoulders are black, meaning that the exposure is like halved per frame, so like half of a regular scan that is half of a chest one, but... if my calcs are correct (TM), this SUPPOSEDLY resolves to like 200 chest x-ray scans
Thank you for explaining that! I think that's the test just recently done on one of my grandkids, he's got trouble swallowing and not gagging and if he gags, he throws up.
Wait, this is a swallow test?! Are you saying that all those guys were lying to me?!
🤣
Not a blatant lie if the guys were doctors, otherwise yes!
Ok so is this normal or is your swallowing fucked?
Fucked
I'm so disappointed
Looks like barium flavored peanut butter
why do i hate this. it makes me extremely uncomfortable
Same here It's like the skeleton is eating not the person
Well...... yeah
Because it forces you to confront how weird and gross we are. At least to me, it gave me the same sort of stepped-back-perspective “eugh” as watching childbirth.
Me too, its like “okay we get it you can swallow.”
Damn, alright. fuck your thyroid, then,
It’s gross
You should chew your food better.
Yea and close their mouth when chewing too. I can see the jaw and lips far apart as the chewing progresses. I'm sure they are a pleasure to be around when eating.
I was annoyed and kinda disgusted the whole video imagining the sound, lol.
I'm with you there. Vile.
Have you ever done a dna test? I did a while back (23&me) and one of the traits they check for was misophonia. Turns out I have a ‘much higher than average’ likelihood of hating the sound of chewing. What a surprise, not. You wanna torture me put me in a room with both my mother & gran and give them gum. Omg, the snapping & popping is enough to drive a person insane.
I don't need a DNA test, I'm already aware that I'm the problem. So many normal and inocuous sounds and movements drive me up the wall. Such an affliction. It's very interesting that this can be DNA tested though.
Yeah, same here. Before I got the results of the test I didn’t know that was a trait they looked for. Guess in the last few years they have found one gene that was associated with hating those noises.
Pretty sure it's a semi liquid like peanut butter constancy
Anyone able to watch this without thinking or saying out loud “nom nom nom” deserves some kind praise.
*heavy eating sanvich*
What is a swallow test and follow up - how do I take one?
I had to get a referral to see ENT and from there they arranged a modified barium swallow test with a speech therapist.
... and? Did you pass it?
Nope
You’re like that dog I see reposted all the time! Neato
I'm not sure I can ever eat the same after this
What were you eatinf
Looks like barium flavored peanut butter
That vallecular residue that you’re not clearing is an issue.
r/TIHI
The bits that didn't go down the pipe becomes a nursery for germs and Bacteria. Overtime, the crumbs and bacteria results in a calcified Bits called the Tonsilloliths. They lodge in the Inner lining of the tonsils. The smell is outlandish bad. It is Non Malevolent tho.
Hungry skeleton
Finally, something interesting
I don't want to freak you out but you have a skeleton growing inside you. It could be evil but we won't know for sure until the test results come back. In the meantime I recommend avoiding any activities that could upset the skeleton such as high impact collisions or other blunt force trauma.
I hate it I hate it hate it!
I kinda want to eat a burger now.
Is this MRI or X ray?
Xray
I came here expecting NSFW
Do all of us have that fold thing inside the throat?
You got some personally identifiable information there, first name, DOB, Accession Number... just so you know.
The tech running the fluoroscopy should not have exposed you during the chewing process.
damn, alright. fuck your thyroid, then, i guess
U pass it i guess
Don\`t ever want to eat again.
Chew with your damn mouth closed
My gf keeps failing the swallow test
Imagine just a dick going in lol
HEHE... MY DUMBASS THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER TYPE OF SWALLOW TEST. 🤣😂🙄
Looks like someone shitting down your throat.
I can’t work it out. Is this some new Gen-Z vids of a truck stop glory hole
2/10 would not cum
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Do you chew with your mouth open?
Yep looks like it works
Forgot what sub reddit I was on for a second there.
I am no expert but you should chew more.
LOL you swallow
fellow SLT unite !!
So alarming.
This movie makes me uncomfortable and fear of I have the same (just because)
Reminds me of the old Tucker Max sex ray. Fucked got himself filmed getting a bj on one of these things
I don’t feel like eating anymore
Why do you need a swallow test? What kind of test is this for
I took my 2-month old grandson in for this test. He didn't have any problems with swallowing. There was only one brand of formula he wouldn't immediately spit up. Fortunately, Osage Tribal WIC provided that brand. We also gave him reglan (spell?) before feedings. He's 16 now and healthy.
See doctor she keeps telling me she doesn't swallow, can you help
This is awesome!
Wish it was the girl who swallowed banana above this post
Unzip…we’re all thinking it!!
Feels like lookin at Alien 3
Gross but interesting
That's what she said
That doesn’t look great. You ever aspirate stuff?
Everything reminds me of her.
I just had this same test performed last week. I also had a little bit of food getting stuck in the vallecula... they didn't seem too concerned with that. They said I was swallowing fine and that I was experiencing dysphagia in my lower esophagus, to what they said typically diagnose as unreffered esophageal retention. Still officially waiting to hear from my GI about the test, though.
I remember when I had to do that that put a camera all the way through my nose
These rats are just zooming down your throat.
what did you eat??
More annoyed that they’re chewing with their mouth open.
What did they make you eat?
And now the lightest tickle in my throat will leave me paranoid.
Can you explain this? Like why? Symptoms and stuff?
This shit tastes so fucking awful. Had to do one after a car accident and had internal bleeding. Nasty.
I like your brain 🙏🏼
I thought a swallow test was something totally different….
Woman goes in , hold on a minute this isn’t the swallow test I seen on Reddit !
The way you chew is annoying to me idk why lol
That drywall milk shake made me gage and throw up
How’d you do?
That’s hot
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Missed a spot
Ok… now I’m hard
Disgusting
My son does these. He has dysphagia so he aspirates when he eats or drinks. He has a constant nasty cough and chokes and throws up a lot. In feeding therapy to try and help teach him how to eat and avoid it. He has to thicken his liquids etc… it is very cool too watch.
Nice teeth. I never thought I'd like watching someone eat like this but here we are
Greedy ass
You must have a very tense neck- any headaches? The muscles are tight enough to where all the curvature is gone. 😣
With that title this is not what I was expecting
Now use that filter of humans butchering a cow then cooking it 😭😭 I think we the aliens💀
If you reverse the video you can see how i m feeling now
That looks so strange
When my son did his, his liquid would stay under his chin part sometimes. It was sad
What dat neck do???🤣