Tips for getting fish bones stuck in the throat 9 tips for softening fish bones

When eating fish, small fish bones often get stuck in the throat. Drinking a few sips of water or eating something can relieve the problem, but harder fish bones are difficult to remove once they are stuck in the throat, and you need to go to the hospital to remove them in time. It is very uncomfortable to have fish bones stuck in the throat. Come and learn these tips to prevent them from getting stuck in the throat and being unable to save yourself.

What to do if a fish bone gets stuck in your throat

First, we need to figure out how the fish bone gets stuck in the throat: the first place where the fish bone gets stuck is in the "glossoepiglottic valley" where the root of the tongue and the epiglottis meet; the second place is the tonsillar crypts; the third place is deeper, in the "pyriform crypts" on both sides of the throat. Fish bones stuck in the "vallecula of the tongue and epiglottis" and "tonsillar crypts" can usually be seen and removed with the naked eye, while fish bones stuck in the "pyriform crypts" can only be found with a laryngoscope, esophagoscope or esophageal barium fluoroscopy.

When eating fish, people often get fish bones stuck in their throats due to carelessness. Some people swallow rice, feed or swallow long leeks with big mouthfuls, intending to flush the fish bones down their throats. This method is not safe, as it may cause the fish bones to pierce the throat and esophagus, causing serious consequences.

The correct way to deal with a fish bone stuck in the throat

If a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you should go to the hospital immediately (the ENT and Otolaryngology departments of all hospitals across the country have various instruments). If the instrument cannot detect the problem, please refer to the following methods.

1. Massage the throat reflex area on the foot (between the big toe and second toe, next to Taichong) for about one minute.

2. Drink olive pit water. Grinding olive pits into powder and drinking it with water can remove fish bones stuck in the throat.

3. Soften with vitamin C. If a small fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you can take a vitamin C tablet, hold it in your mouth, and swallow it slowly. After a few minutes, the fish bone will soften and disappear.

4. One clove of garlic and appropriate amount of white sugar. Peel and cut the garlic and stuff them into both nostrils, swallow a spoonful of white sugar without drinking water. If it doesn't work, swallow a spoonful of white sugar. This method is effective for treating fish bones stuck in the throat.

5. Orange peel can dissolve fish bones. When a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you can peel off the orange peel, cut it into narrow pieces, hold it in your mouth and swallow it slowly to dissolve the fish bone.

6. Ask someone to help remove the fish bone. That is, ask someone to press the front part of the affected tongue with a spoon or toothbrush handle, and carefully observe the root of the tongue, tonsils, posterior pharyngeal wall, etc. under bright light, try to find the fishbone, and then remove it with tweezers or chopsticks.

7. A wonderful way to soften fish bones. If no bone spur is found through observation, and the patient still feels like a fishbone stuck in the throat, a simple recipe can be used to soften the bone spur: 10 grams of Clematis chinensis, 3 black plums, 15 grams of sugar, a little vinegar, add water to boil the soup, and swallow it slowly.

8. If a fish bone gets stuck in your throat due to drinking well water and vinegar doesn’t work, you can drink a bowl of well water the next morning to remove the fish bone.

9. Drink duck saliva. Take a live duck, hold its feet upside down to let it cluck and drool. Use a clean cup or bowl to catch the saliva, drink it slowly to moisten your throat, and the tiny fish bones will dissolve quickly.