Pain while eating after a TBI is uncommon, but issues with taste and smell are not. Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Brian King.
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As far as it hurting to eat after a brain injury, I've never seen pain,
but I have seen people when they're eating something
that would normally be very good tasting feel like it tastes like sour fish
or something unpleasant like that.
It's a big problem, honestly, in which there's no easy answer to.
Fortunately, a good percentage of people improve with regards to this
and it does not bother them on a long-term basis,
but there's no effective treatment really
for the treatment of abnormalities or lack of smell and taste.
Beyond that, there are sometimes people, it's not that they can't taste or smell,
but foods just don't taste the same, and unfortunately, beyond that,
it's just mostly avoiding foods that you may now have to create a new diet for yourself.
Where you enjoyed pizza so much and it tasted so wonderful in the past,
if it's now creating abnormal sensation because of injury to this nerve,
Chinese food maybe will have to be your thing.
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my brother has hypoxic brain injury due to lack of 12 minutes of oxygen saturation.. every doctor says it is a rare case. he has limited motor skills,cannot focus his eyes and has a hard time swallowing and can not talk very well. he is hard to understand. he has balance issues as well. he has had 6 mos of rehab and is not getting much better. have you ever heard of this. he went into hospital to have a kidney removed due to cancer. he also has heart problems pacemaker and defibulator. he is 59 yrs old and his life is very much limited due to hypoxic brain injury brought on by surgery - lack of oxygen saturation.
Oct 30th, 2012 7:30pm