As people’s living standards continue to improve, dietary conditions continue to improve, people demand to eat a low-fat, high-protein diet to avoid the occurrence of “three high”, of course, we prefer “white meat” – – fish. -Fish. Fish is indeed a kind of delicious food, the only shortcoming is that when eating fish a little careless often happens to fish spikes stuck in the throat, and many patients do not like or dare to eat fish because of the fear of fish spikes stuck in the throat. In fact, when you get a fish spike, you should first relax your whole body and try to use a combination of “click” and “vomit”, or even press the tongue and vomit, so that some fish spikes that are not stuck very deep can be brought out with the vomit. When this method still does not work, you may use the “traditional” methods of swallowing rice balls and eating large bites of vegetables or drinking vinegar. A professional otolaryngologist warns that when you can’t vomit out a fish spike by pressing your tongue, the spike may be deeper. Although some of the fish spikes may disappear by swallowing rice balls and eating large mouthfuls of vegetables or drinking vinegar, some patients may still have the broken end of the fish spike deeply embedded in the throat or even brought into the esophagus, which may cause perforation of the esophagus if it is not removed in time, and in serious cases may even cause life-threatening injury by piercing large blood vessels. Therefore, we recommend that you seek treatment from an otolaryngologist if you have a fish spike that is difficult to remove from your throat. A fish spike stuck in the throat can be very uncomfortable. Usually, when you come to the hospital, the doctor checks the tonsils and the lateral wall of the throat for fish spikes by lightly pressing the tongue. It is difficult to distinguish the fish spines from saliva and secretions because they are white and translucent, and some of them are only rarely revealed, which is difficult to find. The biggest headache is when the fish spike is stuck in the hypopharynx and the doctor needs to find the spike through indirect laryngoscopy, which requires the patient to pull the tongue and make a “yi” sound to fully expose the pharyngeal cavity. Some patients with short, thick tongues have more difficulty pulling their tongues, and some patients with sensitive pharyngeal reflexes even experience nausea and vomiting. Some patients are quite dissatisfied with the failure of the doctor to find the fish spike due to the excessive sensitivity of the pharynx, which even causes conflicts between the doctor and the patient. Sometimes the doctor has to work for hours to remove a fish spike, which is really painful for the patient and hard for the doctor. It is no wonder that some patients say “I will never eat fish again” after removing the fish spike. We should not waste food because of choking, and we should not say goodbye to the delicious food that is good for health because of the occasional fish spike in the throat.