Difficulty Swallowing after Stroke

A family member of mine suddenly began to feel it difficult to stand and walk on May 15th, and finally on May 17th I took him to a local Red Cross hospital. He was diagnosed as stroke or lood clot in the cerebellum.

 Come to think of it, on March 12 he slipped on a wet iron gutter cover in front of a nearby small hospital offering Saturday consultation time, fell down, and hit the right side of his face with swelling and internal bleeding. The Red Cross neurosurgical doctor said in a month after such a hit a brain could often suffer a blood clot. The doctor also said the disease in the cerebellum caused him lose their sense of balance and prevented him from standing and walking. But he is a post-stroke patient, not couldn't get treatment.  He said we should see how it would work, and we came home on May 17th.

On May 18th morning, I saw he suffered an attack of delirium and got placed in the Red Cross hospital. On May 19th the day after hospitalization, he obviously suffered difficulty swallowing.
So, he had been taken food  with thickness by mouth, but he disked it.


 Since May 23 he has been fed by a tube. 

So,  NOT to PULL the TUBE,  he is forced to wear mittens and tied to the bed frames when his family are not with him.   Isn't it an abusive treatment ?



The doctor has never offered direct or EVEN INDIRECT trainings for improving his ability to swallow because he worries about aspiration pneumonitis.

According to the Internet, Brain stroke is often associated with dysphagia or difficulty swallowing.  Especially a blood clot in the cerebellum causes severe dysphagia.  In Japan, methods for the effective treatment of patients with difficulty swallowing have never become popular yet.