What to do if your baby gets stuck while eating an apple

Apples contain a lot of nutrients. Whether it is adults or children, eating apples regularly has many benefits to health. However, sometimes it is easy for people to get their food choked when eating apples, especially children. If a child is choked by an apple, he or she will have symptoms such as drooling, crying, and a blue face. At this time, timely medical treatment is needed, otherwise it will cause great harm to the child.

What should I do if my baby gets stuck while eating an apple?

1 Baby gets the foreign body stuck in his esophagus when eating an apple → Remove the foreign body carefully. Symptoms: When an apple is accidentally stuck in the esophagus, the baby cannot swallow other food, his mouth keeps drooling, the baby will cry, and his face starts to turn blue and gradually black. Care: The baby's respiratory tract is very narrow. Parents need to remove the foreign body in time. After the child opens his mouth, the foreign body can be seen in the throat. You can carefully reach in with your fingers to pick out the foreign body. If you can't see the foreign body, hold the child upright and pat the child's back to see if the baby can cough out the foreign body.

2 Be careful if your baby chokes on an apple and the apple goes into his trachea. Symptoms: When a baby chokes on an apple, he will cough and wheeze at first. This means that the apple has gone into his trachea. If the apple pieces are small and not very irritating, they will generally be excreted with the feces. But mothers should pay attention: if the apple pieces enter the bronchi through the trachea, the symptoms of coughing and shortness of breath may be very mild or even disappear for a period of time, resulting in a longer or shorter asymptomatic period, making it easy to overlook the diagnosis. As long as the child has a severe cough, parents must find out the cause in time. Some children do not show symptoms until 10 days after the onset of choking and coughing, at which time serious lung disease has already occurred.

3. Baby chokes on an apple and the object gets stuck in the trachea: Patting on the back method. When a child chokes on a foreign object in the trachea, parents should not panic. First, they should clear the vomit or food residue in the nasal cavity and oral cavity, but do not try to dig out the foreign object in the trachea with their hands. It is recommended to try the following methods to induce the removal of the foreign object: Patting on the back method: Standing position, the rescuer stands behind the child, places one arm on the child's chest, supports the child, and uses the base of the other hand to give continuous, rapid and forceful pats on the spine in the interscapular area to facilitate the removal of the foreign object. The inverted back-patting method is suitable for infants and young children. Lift their legs upside down, let their heads hang down, and pat their backs gently at the same time. The foreign body's own gravity and the impact of the gas in the chest cavity during choking will force the foreign body to be coughed out. If parents do not use their fingers to remove the foreign body in a timely and careful manner, the foreign body will not be able to be excreted by the baby and the baby will need to be sought for medical examination in a timely manner.

4 The Heimlich maneuver is very effective for food choking in infants and young children. Professor Henry Heimlich is a senior surgeon. After repeated research and numerous animal experiments, he invented a first aid method that uses residual gas in the lungs to form an airflow to flush out foreign objects. Method instructions: The rescuer stands behind the child, hugs his abdomen from behind, wraps his arms around his waist and abdomen, makes a fist with one hand, presses the palm of the fist inward on the area between the child's navel and ribs; covers the other hand with the palm on the fist, and squeezes inward and upward with both hands quickly and forcefully, repeatedly, until the obstruction is spit out. Suitable for older children.

5. When a baby chokes on an apple, time is the key to first aid. The above methods are first aid methods for babies who accidentally choke on food. There is a 6-minute first aid concept. If it exceeds 6 minutes, the degree of harm will increase. Parents need to pay close attention to the baby's changes and provide first aid in time.

6 How to prevent babies from choking when eating fruit? Of course, it is preventable for babies to choke when eating apples. To prevent babies from getting choked when swallowing apples, you should pay attention to the following: Do not give apple pieces to babies under six months old. Make apple puree for babies, which is nutritious and healthy. For older children, you should educate them about bad eating habits, do not eat while playing, and chew food slowly. When the baby is eating, you must keep the baby quiet. Do not make the baby laugh or talk, and let him concentrate. This will easily cause the baby to analyze and lead to incoordination of body tissue movement, and mistakenly get foreign objects stuck in the throat or even the trachea.