Will the Sichuan pepper shell soften on its own?

Sichuan peppercorns are a common thing in daily life. They can be used as seasoning and have other uses. Some people accidentally get Sichuan peppercorns stuck in their throats, but Sichuan peppercorns will not soften by themselves. It is best to go to the hospital in time for doctor's help to remove the Sichuan peppercorns. If foreign objects are stuck in the throat for too long, it is easy to damage the esophagus and cause infection. Therefore, you must go to the hospital for examination in time.

Choking on peppercorns may lead to bacterial infection and must be treated promptly. If you are choked, you should quickly lie on your abdomen against the back of the chair and squeeze your abdomen quickly to expel the waste from your body. Or you can use the abdominal impact method to expel the peppercorns. Place your fist above your belly button, make a fist with your other hand, and push inward and upward against your upper abdomen until the peppercorns are expelled.

Foreign bodies in the throat often occur when eating, crying or laughing. Food in the mouth is inhaled into the throat, causing sudden and severe coughing, difficulty breathing and cyanosis. If the foreign body is larger and blocks the throat, death from suffocation may occur quickly. Even a small foreign body can cause laryngeal spasm and remain in the laryngeal cavity, or a sharp foreign body can remain in the throat, causing hoarseness, pain, breathing and swallowing difficulties.

Secondly, due to a variety of reasons, foreign objects may enter the laryngeal cavity and form laryngeal foreign bodies. Therefore, there are many types of foreign bodies in the throat. Such as kernels, chicken bones and pork bones, fish bones, beans, needles, nails, etc. The disease is mostly caused by laughing loudly while eating, and accidentally inhaling foreign bodies.

In addition, when friends and family encounter an emergency with a foreign body in the throat, the correct way to deal with it is to first call the emergency number and follow the doctor's voice prompts to perform emergency treatment. If you have learned the principles of the "Heimlich Maneuver", you can also call the emergency number and then use the "Heimlich Maneuver" for emergency treatment.

The principle of the Heimlich maneuver

By impacting the abdomen - the soft tissue under the diaphragm, the sudden impact creates upward pressure, compressing the lower part of the two lungs, thereby driving the remaining air in the lungs to form an airflow. This impactful and directional airflow that goes straight into the trachea can expel foreign objects such as food lumps that block the trachea and throat, saving the person.

Once a laryngeal foreign body is confirmed, it should be removed using foreign body forceps under laryngoscopy. For patients who have breathing difficulties, if it is estimated that it will be difficult to remove the tube quickly under laryngoscopy, a tracheotomy should be performed first. The tube can be removed under laryngoscopy after the breathing difficulties are relieved.