{"id":86,"date":"2024-02-08T16:09:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/adult-slt\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:11:53","slug":"food-residue-seen-in-mouth-after-eating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/guidance\/food-residue-seen-in-mouth-after-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Food residue seen in mouth after eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the advice in the Eating and drinking strategies leaflet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/leaflets\/title\/adult-speech-and-language-therapy-eating-and-drinking-strategies\/\" target=\"self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Eating and drinking strategies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If residue is a consistent issue, please ensure oral care is completed after each meal to remove the residue.<\/p>\n<p>If the patient is drowsy or is likely to go to sleep with food left in their mouth, please complete oral hygiene to remove this to reduce risks of choking and aspiration<\/p>\n<p>If the oral residue is felt to be related to an unmanageable texture, please consider a referral to Speech and Language Therapy<\/p>\n<div class=\"ohft-box red\">\n<p>When completing a referral ensure you have documented the changes you have actioned prior to referral on the <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/07\/Managing-Dysphagia-Checklist.docx\">Managing dysphagia checklist<\/a> and attached this to the referral. Referrals without this checklist will not be accepted at triage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the advice in the Eating and drinking strategies leaflet. If residue is a consistent issue, please ensure oral care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nomenu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/slt-care-homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}