food enters the airway

Introduction

Introduction Foraging refers to food that blocks the throat or is stuck in the first narrow part of the esophagus, and even enters the trachea, causing respiratory suffocation. It is one of the common emergencies in otolaryngology. The glottic area is the narrowest part of the entire respiratory tract. Aspiration of foreign bodies is easy to incarcerate and glottic fissure. Once it occurs, it will immediately cause difficulty breathing. When eating or eating food in the mouth, joking, crying, frightening, etc., inhaling foreign objects into the throat, common foreign objects such as small toys, peanuts. Melon seed, jelly, fruit core, etc.

Cause

Cause

(1) Due to illness, eating and eating.

(2) Adverse drug reactions or epileptic seizures in patients with seizures during eating, or drug reactions leading to disorders of throat muscle movement.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

X-ray lipiodol CT examination

Psychiatric patients generally have sudden onset of food, light breathing difficulties, complexion, purpura, straight eyes, hands grabbing or convulsions, loss of consciousness, body weakness, cold limbs, incontinence, respiratory arrest, rapid and weak heart rate stop. If the rescue is not timely or the measures are improper, the mortality rate is high.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Plum nucleus is a type of syndrome in stagnation, mainly manifested as convulsions in the pharynx, such as infarction, can not be seen, can not be swallowed, sputum sometimes accompanied by symptoms of pharyngeal infarction, so the two Identification should be done. Although Mei nuclear gas has a sense of infarction in the pharynx, this feeling often occurs when the emotion is uncomfortable or the concentration is concentrated in the pharynx. The eating is smooth without infarction, and occurs mostly in young women; the infarction site of the hernia is in the esophagus and infarction. Appeared in the process of eating, more progressive increase, even if the diet is not enough or cannibalism, mostly in older men.

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