What causes choking on food?

Eating choking is related to the following factors: 1. Eating food that is too dry, such as sweet potatoes, and too fast can also easily cause choking. At this time you need to stand up and walk around, do not rush to eat the second mouthful of food, also can not drink water immediately, slowly will get better. If it is an occasional occurrence of food-related, you can not worry, do not eat too fast when eating, it is best to chew slowly so that can be effectively prevented. 2, the esophagus positive peristaltic function is weakened, the function of the digestive glands is reduced, gland secretion is reduced to the difficulty of swallowing and easy to choke, the elderly is more common. Pay attention to drink less water before meals, the main food can not be too dry, the diet should be light, not too greasy. 3, to exclude organic lesions, suffering from esophagitis, esophageal stenosis, esophageal varices, esophageal cancer will recur choking problem, should be as early as possible to the hospital to do the appropriate examination, and actively treat the primary disease.