Most people on the planet at least once in their lives experienced an unpleasant feeling, the guilt of which was getting stuck in the throat of a fish bone. In such cases, many do not rush to seek medical help, but try to cope with a foreign object with their own forces. However, some methods that are widely used by the people turn out to be only aggravating the situation.

Bread crust.

Surely everyone knows what needs to be done if the fish bone is stuck in the throat. Most of the victims are primarily taken to swallow bread, or rather bread crusts or biscuits. It is believed that solid food will simply supplant the foreign body. This method was recommended by the Byzantine doctor Pavel Aeginsky. However, in fact, most of these actions can only harm the body. At least, it is to this view that modern medicine is inclined.

Hard food most often does not change the situation, but only exacerbates it. Stale bread, passing through the larynx and bumping into a protruding bone, pushes the last even deeper or simply breaks off its protruding tip. After that, to detect the bone visually becomes even more problematic. The doctor-pediatrician of the highest category of clinic "Boris" Anna Gorban told about it to the edition of "Lady Izvestia". The doctor advised not to take any measures, and urgently go to the hospital.

Massage and tapping.

In cases where the bone is stuck in the throat, doctors are not advised to use other folk methods - tapping on the back or throat massage from the outside. The fact is that these manipulations are also able to drive the bone deeper into soft tissues, after which it will be difficult to get it even in a hospital.

In addition, the medical literature has a history of diseases, according to which fish bones that have gone into soft tissues, began to migrate in the body. So in "Cases of Practice", described by Lutsenko, Shutov, Zamulin, Zharko and Zharko, the patient was mentioned who tried to get rid of a foreign body by squeezing soft tissues from the outside. As a result, the bone was in the thyroid gland. After that the subject had to be surgically removed.

Precisely because the fish bones can move in the body of the victim, the audiologist-otorhinolaryngologist Gaziz Tufatulin, on the question of one of the readers, recommended radiographing the neck in the lateral projection.

Delete.

Thus, the results of the manipulations described above can be migration, inflammation (sepsis) or edema followed by stenosis, that is, constriction or closure of the larynx ("Foreign bodies of the larynx and trachea in children," B. Zenger). In addition, according to the doctors, you should not extract the bone and using all sorts of improvised tools: spoons, toothpicks, tweezers. Such rude and obviously unprofessional actions, if they lead to a positive result, and the bone still comes out, then there will be a wound on the mucous throat. It is because of the scratches of the mucous membranes that the victim continues to feel pain for a couple of days. This was told by the otorhinolaryngologist Alexei Gubin to the edition of "Private Correspondent".

However, not only discomfort is dangerous in this situation. Due to mucosal damage, pathogenic microorganisms can enter the body, and the risk of infection increases. That is why physicians advise in most cases not to remove the bone independently and not to engage in subsequent self-treatment, but exclusively to the doctor.

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