When you run into a friend or a colleague at work and they say,

hey, let's hang out and you say to yourself,

well yeah, that sounds great, let's go get a bite to eat.

Food.

It's a central part of our culture, it's a central part of social gatherings,

and if you think about TV shows it's all over them.

In Seinfeld they met at a diner and would order various different things to eat.

In friends they met at a coffee shop and discussed everything from their personal lives and so food becomes the central part of many gatherings.

Just look at the American holiday Thanksgiving. It's a big part of what we do. But as with this podcast as it's been before and it shall remain for the future,

my introductions lead into the idea of what we're going to talk about.

Are we going to talk about recipes? No. What we're going to talk about. Are we going to talk about recipes? No. What we're going to talk about

is when food and the ability to eat become difficult. That's right, we're going to be starting to talk

about dysphasia. And our first topic in this series on dysphagia is going to be on eosinophilic esophagitis. A topic that if you've come across it in a clinical scenario, you know all too well.

I'm Dr. Nakehet Son Paul, your friendly neighborhood

internist and gastrointestinalontologist. We're going to be taking a break from the

liver series and starting the dysphasia series. So join me, stay tuned and let's

kick off that music. Eosinophilic esophagitis, what we're going to be calling EOE is a pretty common clinical

entity for us in gastrantrology.

For many of you in primary care, your patients are simply going to say, I have dysphasia.

Nobody walks into the doctor's office and says, hey, you know, my eosinophils are acting up in my esophagus.

For a long period of time, we used to believe that eosinophils

were always seen in the esophagus

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