The Chinese New Year is approaching, almost everyone has the experience of a fish spike in the throat, many people have been stuck after the fish spike said never to eat fish again in this life, but in fact the delicious fish is difficult to file, many people still like to eat fish afterwards. Don’t underestimate such a small fish spur, improper handling can also lead to a big disaster, today we will talk about this topic. There are many folk methods, these methods are effective in the end? 1.Drink vinegar: The main ingredient of vinegar is acetic acid, the chemical name is acetic acid, the general concentration is 3% to 5%, its pH value is low, theoretically can dissolve the calcium salt, but it takes a long time. The experiment proves that it is difficult to soften the fish spur in vinegar at all in a short time. And the throat is a channel, the vinegar drank cannot stay in the throat for a long time, which cannot soften the fish spur or make it disappear, but will cause chemical burns on the mucous membrane of the throat. In addition, because vinegar can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, it is easy to cause or aggravate gastric ulcer and even induce gastric bleeding, so this method is not desirable. 2, swallowing with a big mouth: some people try to bring down the fish spine with rice, steamed buns, bread, leeks, etc. In fact, the fish spine may pierce deeper, and some even cause esophageal perforation, mediastinal infection, large blood vessel rupture and bleeding, and even require open-chest treatment and life-threatening, which is also very dangerous. 3. Patients often use chopsticks to stab or dig blindly with their hands, which results in trauma to the throat, uvula and epiglottis instead of stabbing out the fish spike. The correct treatment method: 1. Stop eating any food, put the tongue depressor (you can use chopsticks at home) on the first 2/3 of the tongue, gently press it flat, press the tongue depressor slightly to one side and ask to pronounce “ah”. If you see a fish spike, a longer forceps or chopsticks can be used to clamp and gently clip out. 2, timely treatment in the hospital, the pharyngeal fish spike doctors will use indirect laryngoscopy or endoscopy to find and remove. For patients with a particularly sensitive throat, surface anesthesia can be used. If it has already entered the esophagus, a barium swallow or esophagoscopy, gastroscopy or CT examination is required to clarify the site and remove it under the esophagoscope or gastroscope. 3.Sometimes there are cases where there is pain after eating fish, and the fish spike is not found in the laryngoscopy at the hospital. In this case, there is a hidden small fish spike or a possible injury by the fish spike, so you can temporarily observe and eat a semi-liquid diet, and if necessary, go to the hospital again for examination and treatment. Prevention: Eat slowly and chew, talk less, and it is best for the elderly and children not to eat fish with many spines.