Ngaba wayesazi ukuba ukunciphisa ubuzwe buvumba (hyposmia) kunye nokulahleka kobuzwe obunukayo (ismia) kungaba ngumphumo wesifo? Iqela lababasindileyo belivayo abaye bavavanyelwa ukuvavanya ubuzwe babenakukwazi ukubona ukuvumba kunabantu abaneminyaka elifanayo abangazange babe ne-stroke. Kuqikelelwa ukuba malunga nama-45% abantu abaswelekileyo besilonda bafumana ukuphulukana nokukwazi ukuvumba emva kwesifo.
Kutheni i-stroke ifuthe iphunga?
Umqondo wokuvumba akuqhelekanga ukukhubazeka esiyicingayo xa sicinga nge-stroke. Ngokubanzi, abantu bavame ukuphawula imiphumo emangalisa yomonakalo wengqondo emva kokuphazamiseka, njengobuthakathaka obunzima okanye umlenze wobomi okanye ukulahleka kombono . Abantu abaqhelekanga besaba xa bebona ukuba abanako ukuvumba kunye nokuba bebenjalo. Kodwa iingingqi zengqondo esebenza kunye ukudibanisa nokuqonda indlela yethu yokunuka ngayo ingonakaliswa yinto. Enyanisweni, ngamanye amaxesha, i-stroke encinci inokuchaphazela umqondo wokuvumba.
Ukulahleka kwesiphene kukuchaphazela njani ukusinda komzimba?
Ukulahleka kwesiphumo emva kokuphazamiseka kunokuba nefuthe elihle kakhulu. Iphunga lethu levumba lidlala indima ebalulekileyo ebomini bethu. Okubaluleke kakhulu, ukuvumba kusebenza ukusixwayisa kwiimeko ezikhuselekileyo kwimeko yethu, njengokwenyuka kwegesi evuzayo, iikhemikhali kwindawo esikuyo okanye umsi kunye nomlilo, okusivumela ukuba siphumelele engozini nangona 'singenakubona' umthombo usongelo.
Kwaye, ukuphanga ukutya kukuvumba okwenzakalayo okunokwenza ukutya kungaphili, okusivimbela kukutya nokugula. Ngoko ke, ngelixa ukulahleka kobuzwe obuninzi emva kokuphazamiseka kungeyona ingxamiseko engxamisekileyo okanye isiphumo esichukumisayo kakhulu sokubetha, kuyinto ebalulekileyo kubo bonke abasindayo kunye nabanakekeli ukuba baqaphele.
Ngenxa yokuba iphunga linye ligalelo eliphambili kumava onke, ukuqonda kwento yokunuka kuyasinceda sithande ukutya kwethu. Ngaloo ndlela, umntu osindayo olwa nesifo sokulwa nesifo esithile unokufumana ukuhla kwesidlo kwaye akanakonwabela ukutya ngendlela awayeyenza ngaphambi kokubetha. Nangona kunjalo, ngenxa yabasindayo abathile be-hyposmia okanye i-anosmia, ukungabikho kovumba kunye nokuvakalelwa kungenakho ukukhokelela ekudleni, kodwa kunokuba kunokubangela ukuba, Ukungabi nandiphako okuqhelekileyo kubangelwa kukuvumba kunye nokutya okubangela ukuba abantu batye ngokutya okungekho nto ukuze bafumane ukunyaniseka kokutya.
Umntu ngamnye uphendula kwisantya sokunuka kwevumba elincinane. Abanye abasindileyo besetyenzisiwe basebenzisa ityuwa okanye iziqholo ekudleni kwabo, ngelixa abanye bakhononda nje ukuba ukutya kuyakuthandwa kakubi. Enyanisweni, enye yemiphumo yokuguqula umonakalo emva kokuphazamiseka ngumqondiso obizwa ngokuba yi-dysgeusia, ephosakeleyo. I-Dysgeusia yinto engamangalisiyo kwabasindayo abathile.
Ngaba ukulahleka kwesiphene kukubonakalisa ukubetha?
Ukunciphisa okanye ukulahleka kwentswelo yevumba akuqhelekanga ukuba ngumqondiso wokuphela kwesifo. Xa igazi ligeleza kwisitya segazi liphazanyiswa, kubangela ukuba umonakalo wengqondo oguqula ukuvakala komfutho, ngokuqhelekileyo kubangela nezinye iimpawu zesifo.
Ngoko, awudingi ukwesaba xa wena okanye othandekayo uye wahlaselwa kwintswelo yokuvumba. Kodwa kufuneka uxoxe nodokotela wakho malunga naloo nto ngenxa yokuba amanye amayeza kunye neemeko zonyango kubangela ukuhla kweqondo lokunuka kwaye kukunceda ukuba uphonononge unyango ukuze ufumane ingcambu yengxaki.
Imithombo:
Ukungasebenzi kakubi kwizigulana ezingapheliyo. Wehling E, Naess H, Wollschlaeger D, Hofstad H, Bramerson A, Bende M, Nordin S, BMC Neurology, Oktobha 2015
Gweba kunye neentsebenzo ezingasebenziyo emva kwesilonda esincinci: ingxelo yecala. I-Green TL, uMcGregor LD, uKum King KM, I-Canadian Journal ye-Neuroscience Nursing, ngo-2008