What if the medicine gets stuck in the windpipe?

Medicine stuck in the trachea, depending on the size of the medicine and the depth of the blockage, you can choose to cough up as much as possible, the Heimlich maneuver first aid or surgical removal methods. 1. Smaller tablets, shallow blockage: Tracheal blockage of foreign objects will cause violent coughing, most will cough up the tablets out of the body through coughing. At the same time, the patient’s back should be patted to help the patient cough up the tablet as soon as possible. 2. Heimlich method: when the location of the drug blocked trachea is deeper, you can use the Heimlich method for first aid. First aiders first bow the front leg, the back leg stirrup position to stand still, so that the patient sitting on their own bowed thighs, and then the arms were from the patient’s two armpits forward and embrace the patient, the left hand fist in the center of the upper abdomen, the right hand gripped the left fist, to the patient’s upper abdomen above the upper pressure, forcing the upper abdomen to sink. Repeat the above operation until the foreign body is discharged. 3. Surgery: When the tablet is large or deep and difficult to expel, a tracheotomy is needed to remove the tablet. When the airway is blocked, it is impossible to breathe and may cause accidents due to lack of oxygen. It is recommended to go to a specialized hospital in time and remove the medicine according to the doctor’s instruction.