What are the risks for young children if they eat jelly? Jelly is not easily discharged if inhaled by young children Jelly, bowl cake and other brightly colored, smooth snacks are popular among children. However, there are accidents in which children choke and die due to eating jelly. In this regard, Liu Jiangbin, director of general surgery at Shanghai Children’s Hospital, reminds children, especially younger children, not to eat jelly as much as possible to prevent accidents. Jelly snacks sold on the market in a variety of varieties, containing jelly cups are indicated by the words “do not swallow, children under three years of age should not eat, the elderly and children must be supervised to eat”. In the interview, several people said that they often buy jelly for children to eat, but did not consider the safety risks. Jelly is a gelatinous, smooth and flexible food, easy to break and not easy to dissolve. The young children are young, during the teething period, the swallowing function is not yet coordinated, the cough protective reflex of the larynx is not yet fully grown, once inhaled, it is easy to cause the soft and slippery jelly inhaled trachea. After entering the trachea, the soft jelly can change shape with the trachea Shu contraction, it is not easy to be discharged, forming a blockage caused by asphyxiation death, so it is recommended that preschoolers better not eat jelly, and do not let children eat jelly alone. In addition, infants and young children are prone to foreign objects inhaled into the trachea, of which peanuts, beans and other nuts are most common. Liu Jiangbin, director of the child eating nuts suddenly cried, fell, especially prone to foreign objects sucked into the trachea. Once the danger, how should be rescued? Let the child lie down to take the Heimlich maneuver Parents should be aware of precautions, most tracheal foreign bodies can be prevented. Parents try to break up hard food when feeding and then give it to the child, chew and swallow slowly, do not tease, laugh, reprimand or scare the child, avoid crying and running and jumping to avoid choking. Once the child chokes on the jelly, the Heimlich maneuver can be taken. Parents should immediately make the child lie flat, facing up, while parents kneel or stand on the side of their feet, or take a sitting position, and make the child ride on the two thighs of the rescuer, facing forward. Then, the parents with the middle finger or index finger of both hands, placed under the child’s thorax and umbilicus on the abdomen, rapid upward pressure, but pay attention to the strength. Repeat until the foreign body is expelled. Grasp the golden 5 minutes is very critical, but the first aid method is only used in emergency situations, once the choking, should be sent to the hospital immediately to avoid delaying the time to rescue.