The common causes of food blocking in the chest and not being able to get down are neurosis, bronchitis, esophageal cancer, and so on. 1. Neurosis: if long-term mental tension, anxiety, fear, depression, can trigger neurosis, when the autonomic nervous system dysfunction, can lead to chest and digestive tract abnormal sensations, such as chest tightness, abdominal distension, foreign body sensation, etc., which will make people mistakenly think that the food blocked in the chest did not go down. 2. Tracheitis: Since the trachea and esophagus are located in the middle of the neck, one in front of the other and relatively close to each other, when inflammation occurs in the trachea, the esophagus may be implicated in the sensation of foreign body, which may cause the feeling that what one eats is blocked in the chest and can’t go down. 3. Esophageal cancer: If there is a tumor in the esophagus, it will cause the food eaten to be blocked in the esophagus and cannot reach the gastrointestinal tract smoothly, so you will feel that the food is blocked in the chest and cannot go down. If the food is blocked in the chest and cannot go down, the professional doctor will make individualized diagnosis and treatment plan after clarifying the cause of the disease.