The feeling of chest obstruction while eating may be caused by substantial diseases or abnormal mental state.
1. Substantial diseases are mainly seen in patients with esophageal stenosis and esophageal cancer. Causes of esophageal stricture include corrosive esophageal burns, recurrent esophageal ulcers, etc., which are caused by damage to the esophageal mucosa and submucosal tissues, which cannot be completely healed, thus resulting in esophageal stricture.
Esophageal cancer is another common disease that causes obstruction during meals, and the main manifestation of the patient is progressively aggravated dysphagia.
2. Abnormal mental state, mainly seen in hysteria, in which patients will feel difficulty in swallowing and foreign body sensation in the throat. The cause of dysthymia can be seen in the mental and psychological abnormalities caused by various life events and self-suggestion, but also in organic abnormalities such as gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The presence of a blocked sense of eating should be promptly diagnosed, the cause clarified, and actively treated.