Xiao Na likes to eat fish. At the weekend, my mother bought a big fish and cooked it for the whole family. Xiao Na doesn't need her mother's help to pick the fishbone, but she must do it herself. Xiao Na wolfed down rice and fish. Mother kept reminding her: "Eat slowly, there are thorns, and be careful not to stick them." Suddenly, Xiao Na felt a sore throat. She opened her mouth wide: "Mom, I think it hurts me." Mother hurried over and asked Xiao Na to open her mouth and look at the light, but there was no shadow of thorns. Therefore, Xiao Na used various methods to remove thorns. She swallowed a few mouthfuls of rice and half an old steamed bread. She felt the thorn sliding in the esophagus, but it was still stuck in the meat, and people were getting more and more painful. Finally, Xiao Na was sent to the emergency room of the hospital's otolaryngology department. Xiao Na had to be hospitalized because the fishbone had slipped deep into the esophagus and needed to be removed by esophagoscopy after general anesthesia. Finally, it cost about 2000 yuan. The doctor also said that for a case like Xiao Na, you should see a doctor as soon as possible. One more minute is more dangerous.

Xiao Na should not use various methods to remove thorns without knowing the situation. In daily life, when eating, people often get caught in their throats by fishbones, bamboo sticks, chicken bones, duck bones and so on because they are rushing to eat. The pharynx is mostly located in tonsil, tongue root, epiglottis and other parts. At this time, most people who are caught will feel a sharp pain in their throats, which will aggravate the pain when swallowing and affect eating. For children, larger foreign bodies can also cause dyspnea and suffocation. Don't treat fishbone and bone penetrating into the pharynx as a trivial matter. Due to improper handling, fishbones and bones eventually enter the esophagus or trachea, causing inflammation, perforation or fistula, causing serious consequences and even death.

Therefore, we should learn the first-aid methods to remove fishbones and bones.

Self-help and self-protection measures

If it is a big fishbone or bone, try to take it out of your mouth.

1. First of all, we must understand the anatomical structure of the mouth and throat. Open your mouth wide in front of the mirror, shine a flashlight on the open mouth, and retract your tongue as far as possible to make an "ah" sound. You can see the oropharynx, the middle uvula, the tonsil fossa on both sides, the tonsil in the tonsil fossa, and the posterior pharyngeal wall opposite the base of the tongue. It is invisible to swallow the mouth down to the throat without special equipment. However, most fishbones are in the oropharynx. It should be seen that most of them are stabbed in the tissue at one end and exposed at the other end, showing white color. You can't see if a fishbone is stuck in your throat.

With the above knowledge, it is not difficult to pull out the fishbone. First of all, make sure there is enough light, hold a flashlight in one hand, let the flashlight point directly at the mouth and throat, shrink your tongue back and make an "ah" sound. If you look carefully from left to right, most fish bones can be found. If you don't see it once, take a break and repeat it until you see it clearly. Then quickly pull out the fishbone with tweezers.

3. If it is repeated many times and it is not found, then the fishbone may stab into the throat. Don't take any self-help and self-care measures at this time, and go to the hospital immediately to avoid delaying the treatment opportunity, or blindly saving yourself, aggravating the injury and leading to serious consequences.

If it is a tiny fishbone-as small as a hair or larger, such fishbone can naturally slide down with swallowing. It is also possible that such fishbones can be softened and swallowed with food.

4. Take a proper amount of maltose in your mouth and swallow it slowly to remove fishbone from your throat. With 1 tablet of vitamin C in your mouth, slowly swallow and melt the liquid medicine, which will also soften the fishbone after a few minutes. If there is no such thing, household vinegar will do. Fish bones are afraid of acid, and when they meet acid, they will soften. Drink a few mouthfuls of vinegar, slowly swallow it, and repeat it several times until the fishbone becomes soft and the tingling disappears. In addition, sesame oil can protect the esophageal mucosa, and drinking sesame oil can lubricate the esophagus, so that foreign bodies such as fishbone swallowed by mistake can slide smoothly through the esophagus without hurting the esophagus.

When the fishbone becomes soft, it can be swallowed. Is to immediately swallow dried rice balls, steamed bread, vegetables, leeks and other foods, and push the softened fishbone down.

6. After the thorn is taken out, sometimes you will feel a thorn, so don't worry. Under normal circumstances, it is a thorn that pierces the mucosa, and the damaged mucosa will have a foreign body sensation.

preventive measure

You can't say you don't eat fish just because you are afraid of fishbone. In life, you should pay attention to:

1. Know which fishbones are mainly in which part, such as hairtail, with a big thorn in the middle and a row of small thorns on both sides. Some fish have fewer spines in the abdomen and more spines in the back. At this time, we should pay attention to avoid the prickly parts. Just pay attention when eating.

2. If you are stuck by fishbone, keep calm and save yourself quickly.