Hello, Mrs. Hudson. I've brought you a brochure to help explain about how to swallow safely before you start on a pureed diet today. I'll go through it with you now, if that's OK?
你好,哈德森女士。我拿來了一本小冊子,上面對吃流食時如何安全吞咽做了詳細的講解。我跟您一起看,行嗎?
That's OK.
當然可以。
Before we start talking about swollowing, I'll go through some of the parts of the head and neck.
開始講解吞咽流食前,我需要先看一下頭部和脖頸。
All right.
沒問題。
First of all, the food enters the mouth. Then the teeth help with chewing the food.
首先,將食物送入口中,然后用牙齒進行咀嚼。
Right.
是的。
The tongue also helps with chewing and swallowing the food.
舌頭可以幫助咀嚼和吞咽食物。
I see.
我明白了。
Then the soft food goes to the throat, which is at the back of the mouth.
之后,嚼碎的食物進入口腔后面的咽喉中。
OK.
好的。
The throat joins up with 2 separate tubes. One tube is called the trachea or windpipe. The other tube is called oesophagus.
喉嚨里有2個獨立的管道。一個是氣管,另一個是食道。
Is that important?
這很重要嗎?
Yes, it is. I'll explain about it in a minute.
是的。我待會再跟您解釋這一點。
Right.
知道了。