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Considerable decrease in food intake
My dad is diabetic and hypertensive for 10 years and on regular treatment...until 3 months back he was normally eating...For past 3 months he feels difficulty in swallowing food as he feels it gets struck in the food tube and slowly gets in... And every morning when he wakes up he has a feel of so much of secretions in the throat...Recently he changed the diabetic consultant and whole brand of drugs and dosages have changed...From that day his food intake has markedly reduced...How to sort this out?
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Hello please get Endocscopy done to rule out any oesophageal obstruction
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Need to know the time medications that have been changed to act further. Also need to ask some more questions about the difficulty in swallowing he has.
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Dr. Anila Chandy
General Physician
20 yrs exp
Chennai
Hi! I’m really sorry to hear this. The problem isn’t related to diabetes or medication. He needs an urgent endoscopy to rule out cancer in the esophagus.
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Dr. Amarpreet Singh Riar
General Practitioner
9 yrs exp
Delhi
Diabetic Gastroparesis is common issue in diabetics .
Leads to reduce appetite and other such problems.
However, there are medicines that can improve it very quickly.
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