The difference between a fish bone stuck and a scratch

Fish tastes delicious and is very nutritious. However, we must be careful when eating fish, otherwise the fish bones may get stuck in the throat or scratch the throat. Some people suddenly feel some discomfort in their throat when eating fish. Since they can't tell whether it is a foreign body sensation or a pricking sensation, they can't judge whether the fish bone is stuck in the throat or scratched the throat.

1. How to judge whether fishbone is stuck or scratched

The throat feels uncomfortable and painful when a fish bone is stuck in it. When your throat is scratched by a fish bone, swallowing food will touch the wound and the throat will mistakenly think that the fish bone is still stuck there, so it will still feel painful. If you are stuck by a fish bone, the pain will continue, but if you are just scratched by the fish bone, the pain in your throat will ease and disappear as the wound heals.

2. What to do if a fish bone is stuck

1. Drink vinegar

This is a method I have been using since I was a child. When I got a fish bone stuck in my throat, I would take out the vinegar at home and drink it. Of course, when drinking it, don't swallow it so quickly. Be sure to let the vinegar stay in your throat for a while. This gives the vinegar enough time to soften the fish bone, and it will go down naturally.

2. Swallowing rice

This method is based on the feeling of the fish bone stuck in the throat. If you feel that the fish bone is only slightly stuck there, then eat a mouthful of rice and swallow it, so that the fish bone can be pressed down. However, if you feel that the fish bone is stuck very tightly in the throat, then do not use this method, otherwise it will only scratch your throat.

3. Coughing or vomiting

This method is based on the opposite theory. If the fish bone cannot be put down, try to get it out. This method allows the fish bone stuck in the throat to be spit out by coughing loudly or vomiting. Although this method is the most uncomfortable, it is nothing compared to the fish bone that has been stuck in the throat.

4. Put a black plum or other sour food in your mouth

Hold a black plum or other sour food in your mouth to stimulate the secretion of digestive juices in your digestive tract and throat. After a while, when you eat a mouthful of rice or steamed bun, the fish bone will be removed.

5. Use vitamin C, which is always available at home, to soften

This is basically what you use when the first four methods don't work. Put 1 or 2 vitamin C tablets in your mouth, swallow them slowly without drinking water, and then wait for a while, and the fish bone will basically be gone. Of course, the premise is that you have vitamin C tablets available at home.