Can a goose get stuck in the throat. Description of the problem and what to do with the patient. Pathology of the digestive system and neoplasms

Husk stuck in the throat - with such a problem faced by adults and children. You can try to get the seed or seed out of respiratory tract  alone or consult a doctor.

First aid

Foreign objects are often stuck in the throat, it happens more often in children. Conversation and laughter during meals, dental problems, insufficient chewing of food contribute to the problem.

Anatomically, the problem most often occurs in the oropharynx - stuck husk is located in the tonsils. Far less often foreign bodies close the lumen of the larynx, trachea and bronchi.

What to do if a seed is stuck in my throat? First of all, you need to assess whether breathing is difficult for a child or an adult. If the throat is small foreign body  - peel or shell, there is no health hazard. It just hurts the mucous and causes discomfort.

1. Rinse the throat with warm water, spit it out.
2. With inefficiency, you can try to take a few sips of water.
3. Swallow a slice of solid bread that will push the husks through the esophagus.
4. Copiously cough, sometimes coughing helps to remove a foreign body.

Husk sunflower seeds in the throat usually does not linger for a long time. But it can damage the mucous membrane, then the discomfort mimics the presence of a foreign object.

With difficulty breathing

The situation is much more dangerous if the husks are stuck right in the airways - the larynx, the trachea and the bronchi. In this case, the breathing process is disturbed, the victim cannot take a deep breath, the skin turns blue, shortness of breath occurs, the patient begins to panic.

If a foreign object  difficult breathing in the throat, what to do:

• Use a flashlight to inspect the airways. If the lumen is completely blocked, you can not hesitate with.
• In adults and children from 1 year old, Heimlich should be taken: stand behind the patient, clasp his chest, bend forward, rarely squeeze the chest with the upper part of his wrists. If necessary, you need to repeat the reception several times.
• In children under 1 year old, this technique cannot be performed. The airway is free of foreign objects as follows: put the baby on the stomach on the forearm or thigh, mouth down. Gently hit the child’s back several times, examine the mouth and remove the object from there.

With persistent dyspnea, you should immediately call an ambulance.

Qualified treatment

If it was not possible to remove the object on your own, or if discomfort persists in the throat, you should contact your otolaryngologist.

ENT will do the following:

1. Examine the airway with a laryngoscope.
2. Evaluate whether there is a foreign body in the throat.
3. With the help of tools will extract the husks, seeds or other object.
4. On the area of ​​the respiratory tract will cause antiseptics, appoint them for independent use.
5. If breathing is difficult, it will diagnose the condition and correct the problem.

An unpleasant situation can happen with a cough. If you could not help the victim yourself, consult a doctor.

It is necessary to know. Reception, able to save lives. Different objects get stuck in people's throats more often than you can imagine:  food, bone, or anything else can get stuck in the airways and thus quietly suffocate a person. As with a very simple technique, you can save a life when something is stuck in your throat:

Partial blockage. If the victim makes sounds or coughs, this is very good. This means that its airways are not completely blocked. Cough is a protective reaction of the body, aimed at getting rid of leftover food or other objects stuck in the throat. Ask the victim to continue to cough until you see the object stuck, and then pull it out with your thumb and index finger.

Even if the object does not completely block the airway, you need to be alert that it does not close them completely. If the victim is a child under one year of age, remember that when he cries and coughs, this is a good sign.

Complete blockage. The victim does not make any sounds, but is conscious. He cannot even cough, since the object completely blocks his airway. In this case, you must resort to the reception Heimlich.

2. Admission Heimlich (for adults and children older than a year)

Remember: the game of Heimlich should be used only if the victim is over a year old and cannot cough, speak, shout and, accordingly, breathe. If he is not given prompt assistance, he will faint. In such a situation it is very important to act quickly, while maintaining calm. There is nothing difficult in accepting Heimlich:

Stand behind the victim if you are right handed - a little to the left, if left handed - a little to the right.

Take it firmly under the breast and tilt it slightly forward so that the object stuck in the throat moves outwards, not deeper inwards.

Gently but confidently hit the victim between the shoulder blades of the upper part of the wrist.

Check if the object is out. If not, strike again, and so on up to five times.

If there is no result from the blows and the victim is still unable to breathe, make a fist and place it between his navel and the ribs. Place your other hand on top and press it several times until the stuck object comes out. Please note that this technique cannot be done with pregnant women, children under one year old and people with excess weight.

If the object still interferes with breathing, call an ambulance. Do not leave the victim alone and continue to apply Heimlich's technique until the doctors arrive.

3. Children under the age of one.

If the child does not cough or cry, place him mouth down along his forearm or thigh so that his head is, what to lean on.

Gently strike him five times on the back with the upper part of the wrist. After that, carefully examine the child’s mouth and remove the object if you see it there. Do not try to reach the stuck object by putting your fingers into the child’s mouth, as this way you can push it deeper and thus only worsen the situation.

If this does not help, turn the child on his back and gently push his chest five times. After each attempt, check whether the stuck object has come out.

As you can see, in this technique there is nothing difficult, you just need to be calm and confident in yourself. Reception of Heimlich helps in most cases, and it is necessary to always remember him in order to be able to save a life.published by

The unpleasant feeling that something is stopping the throat can disturb a person by the most for various reasonsstarting from the remaining pieces of food in the mouth and throat, ending with tumor formations of the respiratory organs.

Therefore it is important to know everything. possible reasons of this condition to be able to help a person on his own or know what to do and which specialist should be referred to.

If the foreign body is not deep, then you can rinse with weak soda or saline. And if the sharp fish bone is stuck and interferes, it is best to try to gently get it with tweezers.

In the case when it was not possible to remove a foreign body from the throat, you need to contact the ENT doctor.

Less commonly in adults, various objects cause something to be stuck in the throat. For example, the habit of some seamstresses has to hold sharp pins and needles in the mouth, holding them with their lips. Sometimes this leads to inhalation or ingestion of these pins. This situation is very dangerous and requires urgent treatment to the doctor.

After vomiting, there may also be a feeling that a foreign body is interfering in the throat. The reason for the remnants of food and pharynx irritation of acidic stomach contents. After rinsing the throat and taking a small amount of liquid, these sensations usually pass.

The problem of a foreign body in the throat of a child

Small children often pull a variety of things into their mouths — small toys, or just found everyday objects.

There is even a label on the packaging of toys, which says that this product is forbidden to give children up to three years, because it contains small parts.

If a piece of food is stuck in a child’s throat, then help is provided in the same way as an adult.

But foreign inedible items should be removed from the throat by parents using tweezers. If parents can not do this, you must consult a doctor.

In addition, there are a number of situations where emergency medical care is needed.  Be sure to call the doctor if your child is stuck in the throat:

1. Something sharp (needles, paper clips),
2. Toxic and potentially dangerous to life and health (tablets, batteries),
3. Anything big that interferes with breathing
4. Magnets in the amount of two or more pieces.

Problems swallowing pills

Many people have difficulty swallowing. drugs, especially if it is a tablet, dragee, capsule. Often they are just afraid to choke and choke. A tablet can get stuck in the throat when it is too large, has an irregular shape (like oblong vitamin complexes), is not wet enough in the throat, or the tablet does not drink water.

1. Drink a glass of water or tea if the tablet is stuck due to lack of drink;
2. Wash down with juice, kefir, yogurt;
3. Eat something, because often a pill is easier to swallow during a meal. In this case, it is important to check in the instructions for the drug whether it can be taken with food.

If the instructions do not matter that the pill needs to be swallowed whole, then it can be divided into smaller pieces or make a powder and dissolve it in water.

Some before taking the drug are so afraid, as if the tablet is not stuck in the throat when it is taken, that fear prevents them from swallowing it properly due to spasm of the throat muscles.

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Diseases causing a feeling of coma and foreign body

The feeling of a foreign body in the throat can cause some diseases. Some of them are directly related to the respiratory organs, and some relate to diseases of other organs and systems, and the feeling that a foreign body or lump in the throat is a side symptom.

Diseases associated with respiratory and nervous disorders

Elementary infectious or allergic inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa can cause a foreign body sensation. However, it is more like a scratchy or burning sensation. Frequent diseases of the upper respiratory system can cause an increase in lingual or palatine tonsil. A person will feel at the same time that a foreign body is interfering with his throat, as well as difficulty in swallowing.

Stress, nervous tension, fears, anxiety, increased nervousness - all this can lead to a feeling of a lump in the throat, a foreign body, squeezing and squeezing of the throat.

Feeling does not go away after trying to drink water or rinse the throat. An important distinctive symptom of the sensation of a foreign body with neurological problems is its inconstancy.

That is, it passes on its own, is not associated with the ingestion of food or the position of a person, but it is possible to trace its relationship with strong emotional experiences. Such a phenomenon is not uncommon, so if there is suspicion of a cause from nervous system, then an experienced neurologist will help solve this problem.

Pathology of the digestive system and neoplasms

If a person complains that he has any unpleasant feeling in his throat, and in addition there are complaints of heartburn, belching, abdominal pain, digestive disorders, you should pay attention to the condition of the stomach and esophagus.

Hernia, gastroesophageal reflux, esophageal injuries may well cause similar symptoms.

The feeling that something is interfering in the throat may occur after endoscopic examinations, and this is due to microtraumas that heal independently.

Tumor formations of the laryngeal apparatus, pharynx, trachea, esophagus, as well as lung cancer at a late stage can also cause pain, tickling, feeling in the throat of an external object. It may be difficult to swallow, a cough will appear, the condition will not improve in any position even for several weeks. Only an oncologist can help here.

Other reasons

There are still a number of diseases when a foreign body sensation interferes, but it is useless to do anything without the help of a doctor. These pathologies include:

• Diseases of the cervical spine;
• Serious injuries of the larynx, pharynx, esophagus;
• Overweight;
• Vegetative dystonia.

If a person regularly takes anti-pressure drugs, antihistamines, then some of them can also cause a foreign body sensation in the throat.

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If something like this happened to someone from your loved ones, and there is less and less waiting time for the ambulance doctors to arrive, you should know what to do if something is stuck in your throat and how to render emergency care  to the victim. Although Heimlich's method is often used for this, it can, however, sometimes be strictly contraindicated.

Why does it feel like something is stuck in the throat?

Feeling as if something is stuck in the throat can occur for many different reasons. Often this happens when eating "coarse" foods - baking, muffin, confectionery and bakery products. However, even a small seed from an apple or a sunflower can cause serious indisposition.

This is explained by the fact that an object stuck in the throat, as if it “clings” to the mucous membranes, as a result of which it cannot move further along the esophagus.

If the food is stuck in the throat, do not panic. It is especially good if a person begins to cough, because it means that the airways are not completely blocked, and the victim can be helped without medical intervention.

Why is a pill stuck in my throat?

Many tablet preparations can irritate the mucous membranes of the throat, since most of them are too hard surface. That is why some people complain that they have a pill stuck in their throat.

If this really happened, it means that in the future it is necessary to divide it into several parts in order not to face the problem again.

What should I do if something is stuck in my throat?

If you feel as if something is stuck in your throat, first of all, you should try to determine the extent of the airway closure if possible.

It can be easy when there is only partial blockage, or severe when the path is blocked completely. In the latter situation, food gets stuck in large chunks, which can lead to suffocation.

Help with partial blockage of the airways

What should I do if something is stuck in my throat, a person coughs and tears flow from his eyes? First of all, you need to try to push the foreign body into the stomach. If the tablet is stuck in the throat, you should drink as much water as possible. A glass or two glasses of liquid will help get rid of the oppressive sensation in the trachea or esophagus. However, if this does not help, and the person becomes worse, should take Heimlich reception. With it, a foreign object is removed from the cavity of the respiratory tract through the mouth.

If the seed is stuck in the throat or fish bone, it is pushed through with an eaten piece of bread. It is better not to use the crumb, and the crust, because it is more solid.

If the fish bone is stuck shallowly, you can try to gently remove it with tweezers. However, a similar technique with small child  must be exercised with extreme caution, since there is a high risk of injury to the mucous membranes of the throat.

If food gets stuck in the throat of children, then with partial blockage of the respiratory tract, help is carried out in the same way as in adults. When a foreign object enters the child's throat, it is carefully removed by using all the same tweezers.

Complete airway blockage

If the object that is stuck in the throat completely blocks the airway, the victim can neither cough nor breathe, which is an extremely dangerous and disturbing sign.

In this case, it is necessary to urgently call an ambulance and resort to performing the reception of Heimlich. Other methods will be ineffective.

How to properly receive Heimlich?

It is very important to observe the technique of performing the game of Heimlich, since improperly performed manipulation can lead to a deterioration of the condition of the victim.

Before you receive Heimlich, make sure that the airway of the person is completely blocked, and the foreign object is so deep that it is impossible to remove it using tweezers. In this case, the victim must be conscious - this will help you assess the effectiveness of the procedure.

Indications for

Performing the game of Heimlich, if something is stuck deep in the throat and blocked the airways, has its own indications. Without the presence of such, it is impossible to carry out the manipulation in order not to lead to a result that is directly opposite to the expected one.

So, if food gets stuck in the throat, or a foreign object gets into the airways, the indication for Heimlich's reception is the absence of:

• cough;
• opportunities to scream and talk;
• breathing.

Such anomalies can cause loss of consciousness or suffocation, so you need to act as quickly as possible.

Contraindications

Contraindications to performing the game of Heimlich are:

• unconsciousness;
• obesity;
• children's age up to 1 year.

A child under one year old has not yet fully formed bones and ribs; therefore, pressing them while performing a technique to remove a foreign body according to Heimlich can lead to serious injuries.

Technique of the procedure

Reception Heimlich has its own, special, technique of conducting, which must be observed. This is a guarantee of obtaining positive results of the procedure.

Follow the heymlich reception algorithm:

1. Stand behind the victim so that it is convenient for you to perform the maneuver.
2. Grab a choking person with one hand in the hypochondrium, slightly bending it forward. This will help ensure that the stuck piece of food or foreign object comes out, and does not fall into the underlying respiratory tract.
3. Gently but firmly strike the victim into the area between the shoulder blades with the inside of the wrist. If the item could not be removed the first time, take Heimlich's trick 5 times in a row.

If this event does not help, you must call the doctors, without ceasing at the same time to continue the maneuver.

How to help the victim who is unconscious?

If the victim is unconscious or there is no way to approach him from behind, Heimlich’s reception is performed while lying down. For this person, you should place yourself on your hips facing your head. Hold one hand in a fist and place it in the gap between the costal arch and navel. Place the other hand on top of the fist and gently press it several times.

At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the victim's head lies flat and is not turned to the side. Such an admission of Heimlich to an adult should be repeated until the foreign body is removed from the cavity of the respiratory tract.

How to help a child up to a year?

If the baby does not try to cough and cannot cry, then Heimlich’s intake for children is carried out as follows.

The child must be placed along the forearm or thigh in such a way that the baby’s head is firmly supported. Hit the back of the child with the upper part of the hand or wrist 3-5 times.

At the same time, it is necessary to place a hand under the baby’s mouth so that after tapping on the interscapular zone alien body  left in your hand. Only after this, the baby can be laid and planted - the procedure is successfully completed.

When is emergency care needed?

An urgent need to consult a doctor if:

• heimlich's reception did not give the expected results;
• foreign matter progressed further along the airways;
• while taking Heimlich, the victim lost consciousness;
• the airways were clogged with sharp objects such as pins, pins, needles, etc .;
• a choked person does not breathe.

Until the doctors arrive, it is necessary to continue the reception of Heimlich.

What doctor should I contact if something is stuck in my throat?

If there is a partial blockage of the respiratory tract, it is necessary to contact an otolaryngologist. Using special tools, the doctor will gently remove the foreign object without consequences for the patient's health.

In a particularly difficult situation, when there is a complete blockage of the respiratory tract, you may need the help of a resuscitator.

Even after successful reception of Heimlich and complete cleaning of the larynx from a foreign body, consultation with an otolaryngologist is necessary. The doctor will assess the condition of the mucous membranes, and, if necessary, prescribe medications for the speedy healing of wounds or cracks, if any.

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A modern person is always in a hurry somewhere, trying to do everything as quickly as possible, completely forgetting about his health. And only in time remembering that you need to drink the right pill.

Often, this procedure happens on the fly, which is why it turns out that a swallowed tablet with a small amount of water or without it can cause big problems. In our article, we will talk about what to do if a pill is stuck in the throat? What emergency assistance should be provided?

Surely each of us has ever felt like this, when it seems that there is something stuck there, interferes and disturbs.

It may be:

• a piece of badly chewed food;
• foreign body accidentally caught in the throat;
• rapidly swallowed tablet;
• the most dangerous phenomenon is when the cause lies in tumor tumors.

That's precisely why you need to familiarize yourself with the symptoms of feelings that occur when a pill hits the throat, and how serious pathology manifests itself. But in our article we will discuss what to do if the pill is stuck in the throat and the associated symptoms.

The reasons

There are plenty of reasons for a swallowed pill to get stuck. The most basic is when medications are taken without taking water, that is, “on dry”. It is strictly forbidden to do.

There are still many reasons that contribute to muscle spasm of the larynx:

• stress, depression;
• the presence of gastrointestinal diseases;
• allergic reaction;
• thyroid disease.

Problems with swallowing pills are such a definition as dysphagia, which can appear suddenly and last for many years. From a medical point of view, dysphagia appears in the form of muscle disorders in the upper part of the pharynx, or in the presence of esophageal reflux.

Council In order not to get stuck in the throat of the tablet, you need to be careful, you should not take them in a hurry, without drinking or squeezing with a small amount of water. Otherwise, the tablet may get stuck in the throat and not go further along the esophagus.

Symptoms

The very first sign that the pill got into the wrong throat is a sensation of coma. This often happens after ingestion of coarse food, fruit with a thick skin, fish with small bones (see), etc.

In addition, a person may exhibit the following symptoms:

• tickle;
• spasmodic cough;
• sore throat;
• urging to vomit.

It can also be noted that after vomiting there may be sensations in the throat of a foreign body. The fact is that the acidic contents of the stomach irritate the mucous membrane of the larynx, which causes a similar sensation. As a rule, after frequent rinsing and heavy drinking, the phenomenon disappears.

Important. Often the cause of what is stuck in the throat is a foreign body. For example, many people have a habit of keeping handmade materials in their mouths while making needlework, and a sudden involuntary fit of coughing or sneezing can trigger it into the larynx. If suddenly this happened, you should immediately seek medical help from a specialist.

First aid

Even in spite of the fact that many people have pills in their throats after taking the pills, the question still remains: can a tablet get stuck in the throat? Unfortunately yes. And such a phenomenon, though not life threatening, but requires an ambulance.

1. No need to panic. As we already know, stress causes muscle spasm of the larynx.
2. Drink a glass of warm tea or water. You can drink and more, the liquid relieves spasm and softens the pill.
3. Perform movements of the neck, with the need to swallow saliva.
4. Take a crust of bread a little chewing swallow, while swallowing to do the movements of the neck.

Well help to push a pill down the esophagus products such as jelly, yogurt or jelly. Also, doctors advise you to gargle with a weak soda solution.

Sometimes there are such cases when not just a pill is stuck in the throat, what to do, for example, if it got into the respiratory tract? Below we consider separately each of the possible cases.

Table. Possible cases when the pill is stuck in the throat and first aid:

Possible cases	First aid
The tablet got into the airways	In comparison, when a pill is in the throat, getting it into the respiratory tract can lead to dire consequences. Asphyxiation and choking may occur with fatal. Independently help is simply impossible, the only thing. What can be done is to cause a cough, so it can turn out to push the pill out of the trachea. It should also be noted that with each breath (which will be made more difficult), it will move further into the respiratory tract. If there was no one around, then you need to make a slope down and how long will it take to exhale and try to push the pill out. To help a person who is nearby, you first need to call an ambulance, and then proceed to assist the victim. It should be tilted as much as possible downwards and, with the palm of your hand, knock on the back between the shoulder blades. If the victim has coughing fits, this is a good sign, it can be saved.
What not to do when the tablet got into the airways	Emergency doctors believe that in a critical situation, when a person begins to choke, it is extremely dangerous to examine his throat, as this is wasting precious minutes that need to be used to force a call. cough reflex, which will help push the stuck pill.
If the victim fainted	If suddenly it happened that during an attack, the person suffocating had lost consciousness, he should be put on his right side and begin to rhythmically clap his palm on his back in the area between the shoulder blades. It is highly desirable that at this time there was someone else nearby to call an ambulance.
Emergency "American" help when you hit a pill in the trachea	This method was called "American" because it is often used by American police to provide emergency aid  to someone who has a foreign body stuck in the trachea. You need to stand behind the victim, hug him so that in the area chest  cross your arms. With sharp movements to squeeze the chest, during the compression there is also pressure on the back, which allows, together with the remnants of the air, to expel a foreign object. In addition to the effectiveness of this method has its side effects, such as loss of consciousness and even arrest of the heartbeat. Therefore, this method should be used in extremely rare cases. When all others tried did not bring results. If the patient becomes unconscious after providing emergency “American” care, he should be reanimated, and if a cardiac arrest has occurred, artificial respiration and a direct heart massage should be done immediately.
If, after a successful attempt to swallow the pill, there is a feeling of coma	It happens that after successful ingestion of drugs remains unpleasant feelingThat throat something in the way. This is because when the tablet moved along the esophagus, it left a scratch (perhaps too large a tablet, or badly chewed). Similar sensations are observed in people who have only undergone endocrinological examination, which resulted in microtrauma. In this case, frequent rinsing of the throat with soda solution, abundant drinking and taking anesthetics are recommended (instructions for their use are negotiated with the doctor, taking into account individual characteristics).

If the tablet is stuck in the throat of a child?

Small children need to be especially careful when taking pills.

If, however, it happened that the tablet is stuck, first aid is provided just like an adult:

• abundant warm drink;
• swallowing a crust of bread;

But it should be noted that the child, by virtue of his age, is more impressionable and his fear may be many times greater than that of an adult. He may start screaming, screaming, hysterical, which is completely unacceptable. Therefore, the nearby adults first call an ambulance, try to calm the baby and begin to provide emergency assistance.

The child first needs to be explained that it is absolutely impossible to drink any drugs without an adult. And, secondly, before taking a pill, you need to put the pill on the tip of the tongue, so it will be easier to swallow.

If we are talking about very young children, then better pill  crush and mix with a little water, only after that give the baby. And what is absolutely forbidden for adults to do is to remove the pill from the child's larynx with their own hands.

Important. It happens that sudden suffocation is a consequence allergic reaction  on taking certain medications. In the case of a child, one should not ignore the recommendations of the doctor, to change medicines on their own, the price of which will be cheaper. Perform all actions strictly according to the instructions of the pediatrician.

In conclusion, we note that if a tablet is stuck in the throat, it is necessary to determine the severity of the phenomenon. When possible, follow the simple guidelines provided in our article. But if the situation is critical, it does not tolerate delay.

Before the arrival of the ambulance, you need to act quickly, try to push the object of choking with your hand claps between the shoulder blades, if this does not help resort to the "American" method. For life you need to fight to the very end.