Misconceptions about self-treatment of fish sticks in the throat

  Many people have the experience of having a fish spike stuck in their throat when they are not paying attention. A fish spike stuck in the throat is very unpleasant, as it is called, like a lump in the throat. Some of the wrong treatment methods in the panic can not relieve the pain, but often make people quickly produce anxiety and fear and other bad emotions. The right way to handle the pain can generally be quickly relieved. The most common sites for foreign bodies are the bilateral tonsillar fossa, the root of the tongue and the hypopharynx. If a fish spike is stuck in the pharynx, it will cause pain or a distinct foreign body sensation. If the fish spike irritates the mucous membrane of the pharynx, it will cause congestion, edema and violent coughing, or cause reflex laryngeal spasm and foreign body obstruction and dyspnea, and may be accompanied by different degrees of wheezing, hoarseness, laryngeal pain and other symptoms. If the foreign body is large and embedded in the voice box, it can cause death by asphyxiation in severe cases.  When a fish spike is stuck in the pharynx, people often try to bring it down by swallowing food such as rice balls and steamed buns, but this practice not only makes it difficult to take away the spike, but also drives it deeper and deeper due to the swallowing action; some people advocate drinking vinegar with a view to softening the spike, but imagine how a few swallows of vinegar from the pharynx can soften the spike away. Therefore, from a professional point of view, when a fish spike is stuck in the pharynx or a foreign body occurs, you should strictly fast before the foreign body (such as fish spike) is removed, and you should not handle it in an incorrect way such as drinking vinegar, and try to reduce the swallowing action so that the foreign body will not pierce into the deep tissue.