Choking on food may occur occasionally because of the following reasons: distraction while eating, which may be caused by eating something else or thinking about a problem; eating too fast; and laughing and joking while eating, all of which are generally not pathologic symptoms. If choking is frequent, it may be a precursor of certain diseases. Frequent choking with hoarseness while eating suggests that the recurrent laryngeal nerve may be damaged, and it is recommended to go to the hospital for laryngoscopy to clarify the movement of the vocal cords. Often choking while eating with difficulty in swallowing is generally considered to be esophageal lesions, such as esophageal cancer; eating often choking with headache, dizziness, unilateral or bilateral limb sensory abnormality and dyskinesia and so on, we must be vigilant about cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, etc., this situation, it is recommended to go to the hospital to perform a cranial magnetic resonance imaging examination. Diet often choking, but also alert to the occurrence of aspiration pneumonia, especially the elderly, if there is a cough accompanied by fever, should promptly go to the hospital.