Eating issues

EA patients and their primary caregivers continue to be ever vigilant of eating complications. That traumatic moment when food gets stuck or has trouble passing through the esophagus is still an everyday concern. The respondents report that this problem doesn’t improve with age, as the table below spells out:

But EA patients are clearly a resilient bunch. They have learned to modify their eating/chewing habits so as to sample all the great foods on offer. EA adults tell us, for example, overwhelmingly they can eat just about anything on the menu:

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