The feeling of choking in the throat may be caused by physiological factors such as psychological effects, or pathological factors such as tonsillitis, reflux esophagitis, pharyngeal tumors, esophageal tumors, and so on.
1. Physiological factors: it may be due to psychological effects, feeling choked by foreign objects in the throat.
2. Pathological factors: it may be caused by tonsillitis, reflux esophagitis, esophageal tumor, swallowing dysfunction and other diseases.
(1) Tonsillitis: If you suffer from tonsillitis, you will have the symptoms of foreign body sensation in the throat and hypertrophy of tonsils, which will lead to the phenomenon of choking in the throat.
(2) Reflux esophagitis: Due to the long-term reflux of bile and other reasons, it causes gastric acid to reflux into the esophagus, which stimulates the esophageal mucosa and leads to esophageal mucous membrane erosion, and when eating, the erosion area will be touched, resulting in the above symptoms.
(3) Pharyngeal and esophageal tumors: Pharyngeal tumors, as well as esophageal tumors cause narrowing and blockage, which will cause choking and pain when eating.
(4) Swallowing dysfunction: some elderly people have swallowing dysfunction, when eating, the food is not swallowed completely, thus the above symptoms appear.
If you feel choking in the throat, you should go to the hospital in time for symptomatic treatment.