How to prevent choking

Release time : 05/25/2025 09:30:02

In the hot summer, ice cream is on the line! Looking at the colorful ice cream, do you drool 3,000 feet? However, have you ever thought that this ice cream can also kill people invisible? Recently, a 3-year-old boy was eating ice cream while walking on the roadside. After falling, his eyes became straight and his face turned purple after choking on the food... At a critical moment, two passing doctors launched first aid, and then the boy was rescued from the gate of hell. I pulled back.

Scared the baby! However, choking on food is actually a common phenomenon in real life, especially among children with incomplete throat development.

So, how to prevent choking? Let's take a look at it below! How to prevent choking? Do you think choking on food is far away from your baby? Wrong! Eating too big or eating too fast can cause choking.

However, the baby's throat is not fully developed and the probability of choking is higher than that of adults.

So, how to prevent babies from choking in daily life? Let's take a look next! 1. Mom and dad should pay special attention to the handling of food, such as: meat should be chopped, chopped, shredded or sliced.

Fruits can be mashed or cut into small pieces.

In addition, do not let children under the age of 5 eat peanuts, melon seeds, jelly and other foods.

2. Parents should not make their children laugh when they are eating, let alone fight with them.

The correct way to do this is to let your child eat quietly and calmly, and to avoid stimulating or scaring the child.

3. Cultivate children to have good dining habits, such as letting them sit at the table and eat, and refuse to eat while running.

At the same time, create a quiet dining environment for your children to avoid being too impatient, excited or laughing too much.

4. Pencil caps, rubber tips, embroidery needles, magnets, plastic sheets and other small items must be placed out of reach of children.

In addition, parents should often consciously tell their children what can and cannot eat.

I am a mother who choked on food, so it is necessary to know more! So, let's follow the website of Mom and Net to understand the reasons for choking on food! Crying or laughing while eating, playing while eating... these factors that are usually easily ignored may call for the devil of choking.

1. Give children peanuts, melon seeds, jelly and other foods. Sweet jelly, crispy melon seeds and peanuts are all foods that children like to eat. But if you are not careful, these things may become "dangerous food" for choking children.

The reason is that these foods are small, and they can easily choke a child.

2. Children cry or laugh when eating. When children are eating, some parents will make them laugh in order to coax them, or scare them, so that they will make them cry.

But these are very dangerous behaviors! If the child plays and laughs while eating, the food is likely to fall from the pharyngeal port into the trachea, causing choking.

3. The child plays while eating. The child walks in front and the parents chase after him to feed him. This is probably a common sight in many families.

But Stop! Stop this dangerous behavior! When a child is playing with food in his mouth, it is easy for food to enter the trachea. In mild cases, severe choking may occur, and in severe cases, suffocation may occur.

In addition, if the child falls down while running around holding the spoon, the spoon may stab the child's mouth or throat.

4. Small items are not placed well. Children are more interested in small things. If some items that can be put into the child's mouth are not placed well, the child can easily come into contact with them and may be eaten as food.

The things we eat can easily cause choking in children. Once swallowed, the consequences could be more severe.

If an infant swallows a rounded object, it can still be passed in the stool.

However, if swallowed is sharp object, it easily stuck in the esophagus or digestive tract, only through surgery to remove, serious situation may have life-threatening.

The consequence of choking is often said to be "to stop eating because of a single incident."

So, what are the serious consequences of aspiration, leading to people refusing to eat even a bite? Let's delve into this together! Aspiration refers to when food obstructs the pharynx or lodges in the first constriction of the esophagus, or even enters the trachea, causing respiratory asphyxiation.

Once choking occurs, if the blockage cannot be removed within "golden four minutes", then the victim is likely to die from asphyxiation.

99.9% of the time, aspiration does not occur.

Because the larynx has a precise swallowing reflex, when eating, it automatically closes the trachea and opens the esophagus, allowing food to pass through the larynx into the esophagus naturally.

However, if children are distracted while eating, it is still possible to suffer a choking incident.

Signs of choking: If your baby chokes, you must grasp the "golden four minutes" to conduct emergency first aid.

However, what are the manifestations of a baby choking? Let's take a look below! 1. Suddenly unable to speak while eating, and there is a suffocating and painful expression.

2. Children usually hold their hands on their neck or chest and dig their mouths with their hands.

3. If there is partial airway obstruction, severe coughing and wheezing between coughs will occur.

How to choke on food? Accidents can happen at any time, and dangers are everywhere! If the baby accidentally chokes on food, how should parents first aid? Let's prepare lessons together! Once a child chokes to eat, parents should seize the "golden four minutes" for first aid.

If the choking foreign body cannot be removed within 4 minutes, the child will be at risk of suffocation.

For children who are clearly conscious, they should be urged to cough vigorously and actively, expel blockages through the airflow generated by coughing, or create a gap where breathing can be maintained.

When the child is self-rescuing from a choking situation, parents should have the child sit up and lean forward. Then, quickly and forcefully slap the back of the child's shoulders with the palms four times behind their backs.

For children who are unconscious due to choking, one person should lift their feet and then support the body in a sideways position. The other person should press down on the child's tongue with one finger while striking the back of the child's shoulders with the heel of the palm four times.

If the choking is caused by sticky food like mooncake filling, it can be helped by having the child lie on their side. The index finger should be gently inserted into the throat from behind and gently pulled out or grasped to remove or pinch up the food.

Lastly, while performing first aid at home, don't forget to call the emergency number.

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*The medical part mentioned in this text is for reference only.

In cases of discomfort, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately for a face-to-face consultation and medical diagnosis.