What to do if food gets into the trachea

If the baby accidentally eats food into the trachea, the baby should breathe hard and spray the air outwards to expel the food from the trachea. If the blockage is severe, the baby will experience breathing difficulties. At this time, the child needs to be taken to the hospital for treatment and the tracheal mucosa should be cleaned through surgery. Let us now learn about the treatment methods for food blocking the trachea.

If the baby is not careful when eating, he may choke on the trachea, which will have serious consequences. The child will have symptoms of difficulty breathing. The symptoms may not be so obvious at the beginning. Parents need to observe carefully to prevent foreign objects from entering the trachea, which will cause harm to the child's health. If a foreign object chokes the trachea, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment in time.

When a baby chokes on food while eating, he may experience mild shortness of breath and coughing for a period of time. The symptoms are not so obvious at the beginning, so many parents will ignore them. If plant foreign objects enter the trachea, they contain free acids, which will cause great irritation to the tracheal mucosa. If bean food enters the trachea, it may swell after being soaked in water, so airway blockage is likely to occur. The longer the stay time, the more severe the reaction will be. Coughing symptoms will appear at the beginning. As time goes by, the secretions in the trachea increase, the coughing symptoms will become more and more severe, and symptoms of emphysema will also appear.

If a baby chokes on food while eating and it enters the trachea, he or she may experience hoarseness and difficulty breathing. When a child coughs, if the parents hear the cough sound like a foreign object hitting the glottis, and there is a vibration when placing the hand in front of the throat and trachea, symptoms of difficulty breathing may occur if the foreign object is large and blocks the trachea or near the carina of the branch of the trachea. In severe cases, suffocation and death may even occur.

If a baby chokes on food while eating and the trachea is choked, parents should pay close attention to the child's behavior and deal with it in time. If a foreign object is stuck in the esophagus, the child will drool constantly and will not be able to swallow other things when eating. The breathing will become rapid and the coughing will be severe. If the foreign object blocks the respiratory tract, the child will cry and even turn black. The child should be taken to the hospital for treatment in time.

What is introduced above is the symptoms of babies choking on food and getting into the trachea. After reading the above introduction, you should have a certain understanding that choking on food and getting into the trachea is a very serious matter for children. Prompt treatment is very important because in severe cases, death can occur within 3 to 4 minutes. Normally, parents should not give their children melon seeds, peanuts and other foods, and should not talk or laugh with their children when they have food in their mouths.