The purpose of diet therapy for patients with dysphagia is to avoid
a. sepsis.
b. reflux.
c. vomiting.
d. aspiration.
D
Diet therapy for patients with dysphagia centers around providing food and beverages in a form that can be swallowed without entering the lungs (i.e., preventing aspiration). Aspiration of food may lead to pneumonia, but not usually sepsis. Patients with dysphagia have difficulty swallow-ing, but not usually with reflux or vomiting.
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