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Thickeners And Nutritional Products To Promote Safe Swallowing For Individuals With Dysphagia And Methods Of Making And Using Same
A thickener is disclosed, as well as a nutritional product including the thickener, uses thereof, methods for the manufacture thereof, methods for improving the cohesiveness of a nutritional product, and related systems. The nutritional products have improved cohesiveness for promoting safer and more efficient swallowing of food boluses for individuals having swallowing difficulties such as dysphagia. In a preferred embodiment, the nutritional product includes a thickener comprising a beta-glucan and an additive. Preferably, the nutritional product has a relaxation time, determined by a Capillary Breakup Extensional Rheometry (CaBER) experiment, of from 10 ms to 2000 ms at a temperature of 20 C.
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Ms. Stevenson works in Salt Lake City, UT and specializes in Otolaryngology and Allergy. Ms. Stevenson is affiliated with Intermountain Medical Center and St Marks Hospital.