Who Are The Main Groups That Balloon Catheters Are Suitable For

Clinically, many patients need to use balloon catheters to maintain the normal operation of the body, especially patients with dietary difficulties, due to the inability to eat normally, seriously affecting the body's nutrition, most of these people are usually unwilling to perform high-risk surgery, so they will choose to use balloon catheters to help themselves carry out normal diet. So which groups are the main groups of good quality balloon catheters suitable for?
1. Patients with dysphagia caused by slow cricopharyngeal muscle flaccid or incomplete opening of cricopharyngeal muscle
Cyclopharyngeal flaccid does not refer to the inability to develop normal swallowing due to lesions of the cricopharyngeal muscles or dysfunction of the cricopharyngeal muscles. This disease mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly women who are easy to worry or impatient, the main symptom is that the swallowing action is not coordinated enough, food may stay in the oropharynx and can not enter the esophagus, especially eating liquid is likely to enter the respiratory tract and choking, thereby aggravating the patient's insecurity. The use of balloon catheters as a mechanical way can improve a series of symptoms of dysphagia, so that patients can reconstruct the swallowing reflex pathway, so balloon catheters are suitable for cricopharyngeal muscle dysfunction due to nerve or muscle degeneration. 2. Esophageal stricture caused by head and neck cancer surgery or head and neck radiotherapy
As we all know, the occurrence of many diseases will also be accompanied by a series of unpredictable complications, especially some serious diseases, even after treatment, it is inevitable to cause related complications. After head and neck cancer surgery, the esophagus will be narrowed due to scarring, resulting in dysphagia. In addition, the narrowing of tissue fibrosis caused by radiation therapy to the head and neck can also cause dysphagia, and other serious diseases may also cause swallowing difficulties, at which time such people can use balloon catheters to improve swallowing problems and return to normal diet.