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Something Stucked In Throat.
Hello,
I was eating some soup and began to swallow something sharp. It was caught in the back of my throat for a while. I vottimited a few times, but could still feel it. I tried to reach the piece , but felt like I might have pushed it down. I am able to drink water and eat bread and the pain is mostly gone. I have no clue what the sharp object was, kind of felt like plastic, do I need to get my throat checked out?
I was eating some soup and began to swallow something sharp. It was caught in the back of my throat for a while. I vottimited a few times, but could still feel it. I tried to reach the piece , but felt like I might have pushed it down. I am able to drink water and eat bread and the pain is mostly gone. I have no clue what the sharp object was, kind of felt like plastic, do I need to get my throat checked out?
Fri, 11 Apr 2014
Hello
Welcome in H.C.M.
In connection to you query regarding ingestion of some sharp object accidentaly while you were taking soup, though you have no pain but still it is giving pinching sensation in throat. I would like to say that there are two possibilities-
1- There may be some hard and sharp thing that had gone inside giving small abrassion in food pipe, and this is giving you weired feeling.
2- There may be some foreign body that may be trapped in throat.
If there is only scretch and no foreign body than your symptom will disappear in 24 hours.On the other hand if you are having any foreign body in throat than your problem will persist.
So it will be better to consult ENT specialist now, if specialist care is not approachable than you may take-
1- warm saline gargling.
2- Cough lozenges.
After 24 hours if pinching feeling persists than consultation with ENT doctor will become necessary to avoid further complications.
Regards.
Welcome in H.C.M.
In connection to you query regarding ingestion of some sharp object accidentaly while you were taking soup, though you have no pain but still it is giving pinching sensation in throat. I would like to say that there are two possibilities-
1- There may be some hard and sharp thing that had gone inside giving small abrassion in food pipe, and this is giving you weired feeling.
2- There may be some foreign body that may be trapped in throat.
If there is only scretch and no foreign body than your symptom will disappear in 24 hours.On the other hand if you are having any foreign body in throat than your problem will persist.
So it will be better to consult ENT specialist now, if specialist care is not approachable than you may take-
1- warm saline gargling.
2- Cough lozenges.
After 24 hours if pinching feeling persists than consultation with ENT doctor will become necessary to avoid further complications.
Regards.
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