Pseudobulbar palsy

Pseudobulbar palsy refers to cerebrovascular disease that does not involve the medullary swallowing center, but the stroke damages the bilateral medullary tract, damages the suspected nucleus that governs the movement of the laryngo-laryngeal muscle group, and dysfunction of the sublingual motor nerve that governs the tongue muscle. Difficulty swallowing and pronunciation. Aspiration is the ingestion of food to the mouth, pharynx, or refluxing stomach contents that cannot be swallowed or expelled in time and accidentally enter the trachea, irritating the respiratory tract, causing choking, asthma and even suffocation. According to statistics, the incidence of aspiration due to dysphagia due to stroke can reach 22.22%.

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