During the Spring Festival, the ENT department receives a lot of patients who are stuck in the throat by fish bones and bones, and there are many people who use the wrong method to take fish bones. Li Xiangsheng, director and chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology of Changsha Fourth Hospital, reminded that you should develop the habit of chewing slowly in your life, and avoid talking or laughing loudly when eating. In particular, the pharyngeal mucosa of the elderly is sluggish, and if you are not careful when eating, it is easy to swallow foreign bodies. Children are hyperactive, inattentive, and swallow heavily when eating, which can also easily cause foreign bodies to get stuck in the throat. These two groups of people should pay special attention when eating.
What should I do if a foreign body gets stuck in my throat?
If a foreign body is stuck in the throat, stop eating immediately and minimize swallowing to relax the muscles in the throat, and then cough lightly to see if the foreign body can be coughed out.
Don't believe in the rivers and lakes home remedies when foreign bodies are stuck in the throat, and drinking aged vinegar and white vinegar can not soften fish bones; Spit out food may be mixed with foreign matter, do not swallow again; It is not recommended to swallow rice, steamed buns, etc., as foreign objects may be pushed deeper into the country.
Once there is a pharyngeal or esophageal card foreign body, you should go to the otolaryngology department of the hospital in time, which is the safest way to do it, and do not deal with it blindly. If the foreign body is large and enters the esophagus, it will cause damage to the esophageal mucosa, puncture the esophagus or even the large arteries, cause esophageal perforation, bleeding and life-threatening, and if it penetrates the lungs, it will cause greater damage and even need surgery to remove it. (Correspondent Li Xuejiao).