Elderly people choking on water may be caused by eating habits, or may be caused by nerve damage.
1. Bad dietary habits: such as drinking water when the attention is not focused, drink water while talking, watching TV or complete other actions, or drink water too fast, or like to tilt the head, lying flat diet, etc., easy to choking. In this case, the elderly should be taught to adjust their dietary habits, drink water at a slower pace, concentrate on their attention, drink water with their heads down, and those who are bedridden for a long period of time should raise the head of the bed to about 90 degrees before drinking water.
2. Nerve injury: the human swallowing function mainly depends on the regulation of the nerve center, some patients have traumatic brain injury, cerebral infarction, cavernous infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and other diseases, affecting the nerve center of the brain, appearing difficulties in drinking and eating, choking and coughing; esophageal tumors compression of supraglottic laryngeal nerve, or surgical injury to the supraglottic laryngeal nerve, can lead to choking and coughing in drinking water.
At this time, we should still actively treat the primary disease and combine with nutritional nerve treatment.
Drinking water choking cough in addition to cause cough, but also may lead to water or food accidentally inhaled into the respiratory tract, causing infection, serious cases will block the respiratory tract, resulting in life-threatening. Drinking water choking cough is the early manifestation of many diseases, so once repeated drinking water choking cough, you need to consult a doctor in time to avoid delaying the disease.