What should I do if a person with Parkinson’s disease has difficulty swallowing?

  Swallowing difficulties often plague many Parkinson’s disease patients, because of swallowing difficulties, Parkinson’s disease patients do not eat well, the body is thin, affecting the mood and condition, then Parkinson’s disease patients with swallowing difficulties how to do?  Professor Wang Xuelian introduced, swallowing is one of the most complex actions involving neuromuscular, swallowing difficulties are divided into two types of oropharyngeal and esophageal, oropharyngeal dysphagia refers to the difficulty of food from the mouth to the pharynx, esophageal dysphagia refers to the difficulty of food through the esophagus, 20% to 40% of Parkinson’s disease patients have swallowing difficulties, mostly oropharyngeal dysphagia.  Let’s follow Professor Wang to see specifically and how to help Parkinson’s disease patients solve this problem?