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Animals should be fed from a height and also have their head held in an elvated position for 5 minutes after feeding to avoid aspiration of food and the development of aspiration pneumonia.
 
Animals should be fed from a height and also have their head held in an elvated position for 5 minutes after feeding to avoid aspiration of food and the development of aspiration pneumonia.
 
Any accompanying megaoesophagus must  also be treated appropriately.
 
Any accompanying megaoesophagus must  also be treated appropriately.
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Certain drugs including aminoglycosides and antiarrhythmic drugs can intefere with neuromuscular transmission and should be avoided in myasthenia gravis patients.
    
==Prognosis==
 
==Prognosis==
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