11 year old problems swallowing

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Recently she has been complaining that she feels like sometimes food “sits on a ledge” in her throat before it goes down properly. When we’re eating, she’ll occasionally pause and put her hand to her chest as though she feels she’s going to choke but then the food goes down and it passes. It doesn’t happen all the time but enough for her to comment to me that she thinks she has a problem.

I’ve noticed quite a few times in recent months that she’ll sometimes cough and splutter when drinking, like you do when it “goes down the wrong hole.”

I’m terrified of her choking - I’ve always had a fear of that and a relative recently tragically died in that way (she doesn’t know about this) so I’m extra paranoid.

I’m going to call the GP this week but I wondered if anyone had any similar experience? I’ve read about dysphasia but that sounds a bit more severe and frequent than what she experiences.

@User237845 my DS has had loads of endoscopies under GA. I usually kept him off school the next day. It was always a very long day as we live a couple of hours drive from the Children's Hospital and the combination of that and the anaesthetic would make him tired for a day or two. He sometimes had a sore throat, especially if they'd done biopsies, but nothing that calpol and some distractions wouldn't fix.
Hope all goes well.

Thanks everyone, that's really helpful. Will let you know how we get on.