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What Causes Difficulty In Swallowing?

I have had some difficulty swallowing on occasion. Seems like food is getting caught just below my sternum area. It s better since I ve starting taking smaller bites and chewing more food more carefully, but I can still tell food is moving through as quickly as in the past.
Fri, 3 Feb 2017
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Thanks for the query to health care magic.
SWALLOWING difficulty may be due to these possibilities , these are :
1 Esophagitis , burning in esophagus due to some irritant nature food items like spicy , sweets burger , pizza etc.
Sometime these spicy food causes burning in the esophagus and this produces difficulty in swallowing .
Antacid ( if it contain oxetacaine is better) may provide much needed relief.
2 Tumor in food pipe . Diagnosis can be confirmed by MRI and by gastroscope .
3 Hyper acidity , sometime acute gastritis develop such type of symptoms ,so be careful about that also.
However , as you mentioned that there is no difficulty during small bite , this is good thing .
But in my opinion it is better to consult an E N T specialist and get his opinion.
Hope this information will be useful for you.
Further any question I will reply happily.
Good luck.
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What Causes Difficulty In Swallowing?

Hello Thanks for the query to health care magic. SWALLOWING difficulty may be due to these possibilities , these are : 1 Esophagitis , burning in esophagus due to some irritant nature food items like spicy , sweets burger , pizza etc. Sometime these spicy food causes burning in the esophagus and this produces difficulty in swallowing . Antacid ( if it contain oxetacaine is better) may provide much needed relief. 2 Tumor in food pipe . Diagnosis can be confirmed by MRI and by gastroscope . 3 Hyper acidity , sometime acute gastritis develop such type of symptoms ,so be careful about that also. However , as you mentioned that there is no difficulty during small bite , this is good thing . But in my opinion it is better to consult an E N T specialist and get his opinion. Hope this information will be useful for you. Further any question I will reply happily. Good luck.