What to do if you choke while eating

Many people always choke when eating. What is going on? Is it because they eat too fast or is it caused by gastrointestinal digestive system diseases? What should we do if we choke while eating? We can first look at the relevant causes, and then go to the hospital for diagnosis. Only with the doctor's effective treatment can this disease be cured.

What should you do if you choke while eating? In fact, when you eat normally, food lumps completely block the glottis on the body, or the suffocation caused by the trachea is called "choking". This situation is one of the common causes of sudden death in the elderly, so it is very necessary to detect and treat it in time.

80% of choking occurs at home and the condition is acute and serious. The key to the success of rescue for choking is whether the patient can be identified and diagnosed in time and whether rescue can be carried out on the spot without delay. If the rescue is done properly, 50% of the patients can be out of danger. To prevent choking, in addition to timely treatment of various causative diseases, you should also pay attention to the "four things": food should be soft, eating should be slow, drinking should be less, and the mind should be calm.

American scholar Heimlius invented a simple and easy first aid method that everyone can master. The specific operation method is: the patient who is still conscious can stand or sit, the rescuer stands behind the patient, hugs the patient with both arms, makes a fist with one hand, presses the protruding point of the thumb metacarpal joint against the patient's abdominal midline above the navel, and presses the palm of the other hand on the fist, pushing inward and upward continuously and quickly for 6 to 10 times (be careful not to injure the ribs). The unconscious patient is placed in a supine position, and the rescuer straddles the patient's hips and pushes and impacts the area above the navel according to the above method. This impact on the upper abdomen is equivalent to a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which can lift the diaphragm, causing the airway pressure to increase rapidly instantaneously, forcing the air in the lungs to be discharged, causing the food (or other foreign objects) blocking the trachea to move upward and be expelled. This first aid method is also known as the "residual air shock method." If it doesn't work, repeat the operation after a few seconds to create an artificial cough and flush the blocked food mass out of the airway.

What should we do if we choke while eating? This shows that many people have poor chewing function. Large pieces of food, such as meat, are not easy to chew. When we drink too much and lose self-control, we can also choke while eating. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid and treat it in time to reduce the harm to the body.