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Suggest Treatment After Choking On The Food

I feel like I have food stuck in my windpipe after I ate a pice of chicken. I instantly choked like I never had before and air opened back up but I never felt the food come up from the coughing. Is there anything I can do because I feel like something is still there and feel a little uncomfortable
Mon, 18 Mar 2019
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Hi Dear,

Understanding your concern. As per your query you have food stuck in throat which is acting as foreign body there and causes accumulation of bacteria and debris. It happens that sometimes food had gone inside giving small abrasion in food pipe. Do warm saline gargles and maintain basic oral hygiene. If there is only abrasions then your symptom will resolve in 24 hours. You need not to worry about that. If you are having any foreign body in throat then your problem keeps on persisting and visit ENT specialist immediately. Go for fibro-optic scan and with the help of fibrooptic tip get that foreign object removed which is causing problem.

Hope your concern has been resolved.

Best Wishes,
Dr. Harry Maheshwari
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Suggest Treatment After Choking On The Food

Hi Dear, Understanding your concern. As per your query you have food stuck in throat which is acting as foreign body there and causes accumulation of bacteria and debris. It happens that sometimes food had gone inside giving small abrasion in food pipe. Do warm saline gargles and maintain basic oral hygiene. If there is only abrasions then your symptom will resolve in 24 hours. You need not to worry about that. If you are having any foreign body in throat then your problem keeps on persisting and visit ENT specialist immediately. Go for fibro-optic scan and with the help of fibrooptic tip get that foreign object removed which is causing problem. Hope your concern has been resolved. Best Wishes, Dr. Harry Maheshwari