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Is coughing and chocking on own saliva a symptom or a part of dementia?? ( my grandfather was diagnosed 2yrs ago, wanna educate myself)
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Depends: on whether one has an acute infection with productive cough, in which case it is not a concern to want to examine the nature of the material coughed up, or if one does it regularly in the absence of acute productive cough, which can be a symptom of dementia.
Answered 12/8/2014
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