There are many reasons for choking on drinking water, most of them are related to cerebral infarction, pharyngeal tumor, and there are other factors, which need to be combined with imaging symptoms and clinical symptoms to judge. 1. Cerebral infarction: patients with cerebral infarction can have the phenomenon of choking on drinking water, accompanied by unfavorable speech, weakness of the affected side of the limbs, dizziness, which can be judged by combining with cranial MRI. 2. Pharyngeal tumor: patients with esophageal cancer may have the phenomenon of choking on drinking water, accompanied by dysphagia, biopsy and pathological analysis can make a clear diagnosis; the treatment generally adopts left thoracic and abdominal joint incision surgical treatment; after the operation, comply with the doctor’s instruction and cooperate with the intravenous infusion of paclitaxel and fluorouracil drugs for chemotherapy. In life, if often choking on water, to pay attention to, after ruling out physiological factors caused by, go to a specialized hospital in time, do not take oral medication, so as not to aggravate the condition.