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  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Swallowing Disorders
  • Food Science

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  • Dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing, necessitates texture-modified diets.
  • Accurate assessment of swallowing function requires realistic food and liquid textures.
  • Traditional Egyptian liquids often have unique viscosities not readily available in standardized dysphagia diets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an affordable method for preparing thickened liquids.
  • To mimic the viscosity of traditional Egyptian liquids for swallowing assessments.
  • To create standardized liquids for fiberoptic-endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES).

Main Methods:

  • Quantified textures of 9 traditional Egyptian liquids using the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) Flow Test.
  • Developed texture-modified fluids using an inexpensive, starch-based thickener.
  • Matched modified fluid textures to the IDDSI scale for endoscopic assessment.

Main Results:

  • Successfully created thickened liquids matching the viscosity of traditional Egyptian fluids like molokhia and lentil soup.
  • Demonstrated simple methods to ensure thickened fluids align with dietary fluids for accurate dysphagia prescriptions.
  • Confirmed the ability to detect and study changes in thickness and viscosity.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methodology provides a low-cost approach to model naturally thickened liquids found in Egypt and other developing nations.
  • This method facilitates the creation of appropriate thickened liquids for dysphagia management.
  • Enables more accurate dietary recommendations for individuals with swallowing difficulties.