What should I do if my child has a fish bone stuck in his throat?

Fish is a food that we all love to eat, but there are many fish bones in fish, especially some river fish, which have more fish bones, so you need to be especially careful when eating fish. Not to mention children, even adults may get fish bones stuck in their throats when eating fish, so it would be even more uncomfortable for children. There are many ways to deal with a fish bone stuck in your throat. Here we will introduce how to deal with a fish bone stuck in your throat in children.

If a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you should go to the hospital immediately to treat it (the ENT and Otolaryngology departments of all hospitals across the country have various instruments). If the instrument cannot detect it, please refer to the following methods.

1. Massage the throat reflex area on the foot (between the big toe and second toe, next to Taichong) for about one minute.

2. Drink olive pit water. Grinding olive pits into powder and drinking it with water can remove fish bones stuck in the throat.

3. Soften with vitamin C. If a small fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you can take a vitamin C tablet, hold it in your mouth, and swallow it slowly. After a few minutes, the fish bone will soften and disappear.

4. One clove of garlic and appropriate amount of white sugar. Peel and cut the garlic and stuff them into both nostrils, swallow a spoonful of white sugar without drinking water. If it doesn't work, swallow a spoonful of white sugar. This method is effective for treating fish bones stuck in the throat.

5. Orange peel can dissolve fish bones. When a fish bone gets stuck in your throat, you can peel off the orange peel, cut it into narrow pieces, hold it in your mouth and swallow it slowly to dissolve the fish bone.

6. Ask someone to help remove the fish bone. That is, ask someone to press the front part of the affected tongue with a spoon or toothbrush handle, and carefully observe the root of the tongue, tonsils, posterior pharyngeal wall, etc. under bright light, try to find the fishbone, and then remove it with tweezers or chopsticks.

7. A wonderful way to soften fish bones. If no bone spur is found through observation, and the patient still feels like a fishbone stuck in the throat, a simple recipe can be used to soften the bone spur: 10 grams of Smilax glabra, 3 black plums, 15 grams of sugar, a little vinegar, add water to boil the soup, and swallow it slowly.

8. If a fish bone gets stuck in your throat due to drinking well water and vinegar doesn’t work, you can drink a bowl of well water the next morning to remove the fish bone.

9. Drink duck saliva. Take a live duck, hold its feet upside down and let it call and drool.

Use a clean cup or bowl to drink it slowly to moisten your throat, and the tiny fish bones will dissolve quickly.

10. Use vomiting method to spit out fish bones. If the above method is ineffective, try to make the patient vomit so that the fish bone can be vomited out.

The above article introduces many methods to solve the problem of fish bones stuck in the throat. If the fish bone is relatively small and the position of the fish bone stuck in the throat is relatively shallow, you can soften or flush it out through diet. However, if the fish bone is relatively large, it may scratch your throat when swallowing, so it is best to go to the hospital for treatment. If necessary, the fish bone can be removed with tweezers.