🩺 Symptom Guide
Odynophagia
Assess urgently for deep neck or upper airway infection, oesophageal obstruction or injury, foreign body, malignancy, and severe dehydration or inability to swallow.
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Red flags
- Unable to swallow saliva
- drooling
- stridor or airway compromise
- neck swelling
First actions / assessment
- ABCDE first if unwell
- record full vitals, hydration status, and ability to manage secretions
- clarify whether pain is with swallowing solids, liquids, or both and whether there is associated dysphagia, drooling, choking, fever, muffled voice, neck swelling, chest pain, reflux symptoms, ulceration, weight loss, foreign body ingestion, caustic ingestion, immunosuppression, or recent instrumentation
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