How to treat fishbone stuck in throat

When we eat fish in our daily life, we may accidentally swallow fish bones. If the fish bones cannot completely enter the stomach, they will get stuck in the throat. At this time, we will feel severe pain in the throat and a foreign body sensation in the throat, which seriously affects the health of the throat. In the case of a fish bone stuck in the throat, we can use white vinegar to treat it in our daily life, or we can use tweezers to remove it.

If the fish bones are not removed, most of them will not disappear on their own. Some people may swallow the fish bone due to repeated nausea and vomiting. A small fish bone can stay in the throat for more than a month and generally will not cause purulent infection in the throat. It will only cause discomfort and pain in the throat. Large fish bones may cause serious complications. Therefore, when a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, it should be removed as soon as possible.

The most common causes of choking are fish bones, while others include peanuts, melon seeds, beans, sugar balls, etc. Generally speaking, the most likely areas for foreign objects such as fish bones, bone residues and fruit shells to penetrate are the lower end of the tonsils and the root of the tongue, while date pits are most likely to get stuck in the esophagus. If a foreign object is stuck in the throat, the person will feel a tingling pain or a foreign body sensation in the throat. If the foreign object is large, swallowing will also be difficult. If foreign objects irritate the laryngeal mucosa, it will cause severe coughing and difficulty breathing due to reflex laryngeal spasm and foreign body obstruction, and there may be varying degrees of wheezing, aphonia, throat pain, etc.

The most serious case is that if the foreign body is large and embedded in the glottis, it will quickly cause suffocation and death. If you find a fish bone stuck in your throat, you can first try to press the front half of the tongue with a spoon or toothbrush handle, and carefully observe the root of the tongue, tonsils and posterior pharyngeal wall under bright light. If you can find the fish bone, you can use tweezers or chopsticks to remove it. If the above methods do not work, or if the pain worsens or the foreign body sensation becomes more obvious after swallowing liquid food, you should go to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately.

Never force yourself to swallow vegetables or steamed buns in large gulps, thinking that you can move the thorn down your esophagus. This will only cause the thorn to penetrate deeper or get stuck in the esophagus, causing more serious consequences. If there are other foreign objects stuck in the throat, one way is to try to spit out the foreign object; or lower your head and bend over, and the child will be held upside down and lie prone between the rescuer's legs. The rescuer will pat the patient's back between the shoulder blades 4 times with his palms. If the foreign object is still not expelled, repeat the above actions. If necessary, the patient should be sent to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

Fish bones stuck in the throat are quite common in life. We hope that everyone should have a certain understanding of how to deal with it in life, so as to reduce the damage to our throat. As for the problem of fish bones stuck in the throat, as long as we adopt correct treatment in our lives, we can control the condition to the lowest level of harm.