What to do if a child has a fish bone stuck in his throat?

In this hot summer, many friends like to go to the beach to play, take a comfortable bath in the sea, and then enjoy a very delicious seafood meal. When eating seafood meals, many people will choose fish. Because fish soup is rich in nutrition and tastes delicious, many children like to eat it. However, there are many fish bones in the fish meat. When many young children are enjoying it, it is easy for the fish bones to get stuck in their throats, which is very dangerous.

1. If the fish bone is large or deeply stuck, and the pain does not subside no matter how you swallow, and if there is no fish bone on both sides or around the entrance of the throat, you should go to the hospital for treatment.

2. When a fish bone is stuck in the throat, never let the patient swallow large pieces of steamed buns, pancakes or other foods whole. Although this can sometimes remove the fish bone, sometimes such improper treatment not only fails to remove the fish bone, but makes it stick deeper, making it even more difficult to remove. In severe cases, infection and inflammation will be even more troublesome.

3. If the fish bone still does not fall out after swallowing big mouthfuls of rice, don't do it yourself. Sometimes the fish bone has fallen out, but the feeling of the bone still remains. So you need to wait and observe. If you still feel unwell, be sure to go to the hospital to see a doctor. This is also the most appropriate way to deal with fishbone injuries.

4. It is not correct to say that fish bones are sticking in the larynx. In most cases, fish bones grow at the root of the tongue or the entrance of the throat.

If you find a fish bone stuck in your throat, you can first try to press the front half of the tongue with a spoon or toothbrush handle, and carefully observe the root of the tongue, tonsils and posterior pharyngeal wall under bright light. If you can find the fish bone, you can use tweezers or chopsticks to remove it. If the above methods do not work, or if the pain worsens or the foreign body sensation becomes more obvious after swallowing liquid food, you should go to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately. Never force yourself to swallow vegetables or steamed buns in large gulps, thinking that you can move the thorn down your esophagus. This will only cause the thorn to penetrate deeper or get stuck in the esophagus, causing more serious consequences.

Many friends like to eat fish, but they don’t know how to eat fish. There are many small bones in fish meat, so we must be extra careful when eating it, especially when feeding it to children at home, because it is very dangerous to have fish bones stuck in the throat, so we must be careful not to hurt anyone.