#WILL UPDATE WHEN I CLEAR EPISODE 7 AND GET MORE HX....

[kusanagihaku]

i'm so sorry for bringing this up again but i just hit chapter 18 and jiro ??? requesting for metoclopramide??

if the metoclopramide is for any nausea it implies that the cause is gastroparesis... which tracks with what we know so far with jiro not taking food orally -> muscle atrophy -> weakened LES/stomach muscles, which allows reflux of stomach acid back up into the esophagus... so 1) jiro's pharyngeal and hyolaryngeal function is somehow maintained but he has ?LES atrophy?? which means 2) the pain related to oral feeding might not JUST be a gastro issue but also really bad esophageal dysphagia????

adding on what jiro said about "the issue starts when the food reaches my stomach", i'm more inclined to believe there's also some LES atrophy going on -> achalasia -> esophageal dysphagia... nicolas i am once again asking for an instrumental ax

which also makes me once again interested in finding out:

what rehab exercises yuri is giving jiro to not have pharyngeal dysphagia,,

what jiro's stigma is!!!! because how is it that mc feeding him (and maybe coming into physical contact with him and enhancing his stigma) allows him to circumvent his medical issues!!

if he does have gastroparesis -> reflux, is jiro going around hacking his lungs out because the reflux -> ?gastric aspiration -> lung damage? does the reflux also result in vocal edema, which is why jiro sounds so asthenic all the time?

(yuri also administering glucose i assume was to counter any dizziness from hypoglycemia since jiro doesn't eat / probably missed his iv drip bc he was out from mortkranken?)

. . . . . . .Jiro's inability to consume certain things can be thwarted by the pc hand-feeding him. If he tries to eat or drink anything his stomach rejects it so he gets all of his nutrients via IV. If the PC is holding it(or holding what it's contained in, in the case of the bottle of water they helped him drink from) he can drink it just fine. Jiro said it'd be good for him to eat some things orally so his organs don't deteriorate.

That's cute and also ridiculous lmao apparently Yuri doesn't know why it happens(and apparently Jiro's tried eating assisted before and it failed), but Nicolas said they should help him find more things he may be able to eat since the pc hand feeding him may help. . . .