Itchy throat after choking on food is mostly due to the irritation of the laryngeal mucosa by food and mucus, which triggers a local irritation reflex. Drug treatment and surgical treatment are available.
Foreign body into the laryngeal cavity immediately cause violent choking and coughing, severe cases can occur reflex laryngospasm and foreign body obstruction caused by dyspnea, cyanosis. A large foreign body embedded in the vocal folds or subvocal folds can cause asphyxiation and death in a few minutes. When the foreign body does not completely block the laryngeal cavity, violent coughing can be accompanied by varying degrees of dyspnea, laryngeal stridor, hoarseness and laryngeal pain.
It must be clarified early whether the food is still in the pharynx. If it is retained in the pharynx, the foreign body should be removed under direct laryngoscopy as soon as possible. If the dyspnea is so obvious that it is difficult to remove the food under direct laryngoscopy, an emergency tracheotomy should be performed first, and after the dyspnea is relieved, the food should be removed under direct laryngoscopy, or a larger foreign body under the vocal folds can be removed upward from the tracheotomy.
Once the food is removed from the throat, coughed up, or swallowed into the esophagus, the itchy throat will be relieved. If you still feel discomfort, you can take Dumiphene tablets to reduce inflammation and gargle with borax gargle to clean the throat cavity.
Once eating choking throat, must not be taken lightly, simple short-term itchy throat and choking cough, still need to remain vigilant, such as the emergence of other symptoms need to actively seek medical attention.