How to prevent foreign bodies from eating?

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Esophageal foreign body is a common emergency and also one of the most common oral foreign body conditions. Can be life-threatening and lead to high mortality. To know how to prevent sugar foreign bodies, please follow the content of the article, along with details on how to prevent sugar foreign bodies now.

1. Causes of eating foreign body disease

Currently there are many cases of eating foreign body disease, according to statistics, some of the main causes leading to this disease are:
Due to our Vietnamese eating habits, The dishes are usually cut into pieces that contain both meat and bones. Thus, it is easy to choke if you eat too fast, too hasty, do not chew properly, or eat while talking... The esophagus contracts abnormally due to an abnormal tumor appearing in or outside the esophagus, causing the The esophagus narrows, allowing food to get stuck in that narrow spot. Examples are some conditions where mediastinal tumors press on the esophagus , cancer or esophageal spasm . Because the esophagus has some natural narrowing segments: Normally, the esophagus will have 5 natural narrow segments and these narrow segments are also the most common sites for food to get stuck. According to statistics, the neck area is the most common place for foreign bodies to get stuck, accounting for 74%, the chest area accounts for 22% and the lower chest area accounts for only 4%.

2. Some typical symptoms when having a foreign body in food

When suffering from a foreign body, the patient will begin to notice the appearance of some of the following symptoms:
2.1 Symptoms in the early stages Patients with a foreign body in the neck esophagus will feel pain when swallowing At the same time, there is an uncomfortable feeling of entanglement having to skip a meal, some people use the way of swallowing more vegetables or white rice with the intention of pushing the foreign body into the stomach. Some patients spit out forcefully in the hope that the foreign body will be expelled by this method, however, in most cases, the foreign body can escape very little, and in most cases, it will cause more pain in the patient. the area affected by the foreign body, even not swallowing anything is painful, the pain is getting worse and worse. In case the patient has a foreign body in the thoracic esophagus, there will be pain behind the sternum, pain spreading to both the back and shoulder blades.

Symptoms of a foreign body in the esophagus usually do not appear as massive as the symptoms of a foreign body in the airway. However, if the foreign body that we have is large in size like a boiled egg, fruit seed, large piece of meat... it can still cause compression leading to suffocation. The rest usually only cause difficulty swallowing and slightly painful if only small, thin foreign bodies are involved.
2.2 Symptoms commonly seen in the inflammatory stage The inflammatory process will take place very quickly if the foreign body that the patient has is a bone in the food. Usually, within 1-2 days, the patient will feel pain in the neck when swallowing, the level of pain in the chest is increasing rapidly, making them unable to eat, not dare to drink even water. hunger and thirst. The inflammation around the esophagus or submucosa abscess leads to a high fever of 38 - 39 degrees Celsius, infection on the face.
The esophagus shows signs of swelling or an abscess appears under the mucosa. If the foreign body the patient has acquired is a contrast medium, it can show the foreign body. The physiological curvature of the cervical spine is lost. Esophagoscopy will show foreign bodies, surrounding mucosa is edematous, inflamed, with pseudomembranous even rotten pus.

2.3 Symptoms when moving to the complicated stage This stage is caused by not being detected and treated in time, leading to damage spreading beyond the esophagus, or the esophageal wall has been penetrated by a foreign object causing inflammation around cervical esophagus. Occurrence of symptoms of high fever, rapid deterioration of health, rapid increase in infection, unexplained poisoning, inability to eat and drink, excessive salivation in the mouth, foul breath, difficulty in neck movement, Often there is swelling on the left side of the neck, the carotid trough is fuller than usual, the spine loses signs of filtering the larynx. There can also be complications causing purulent pleurisy ....

3. How to prevent foreign bodies from eating?

In order to prevent foreign bodies from eating sugar, we need to follow some rules as follows:
When eating, pay attention to eat slowly, chew food thoroughly, do not rush. Avoid eating too quickly, which can lead to a situation when swallowing food difficult to pass through the esophagus and will get stuck. Processing foods with bones carefully, minimizing the risk of food getting mixed with bones will easily cause bones to get stuck in the esophagus. Avoid sucking on objects that can be swallowed, because many cases of sucking on such objects accidentally cause the foreign body to drift into the neck area and become entangled. When you have a bone fracture, it is necessary to seek medical attention and treatment as soon as possible, do not arbitrarily use your hands to pick your throat or use unscientific methods. This will make the disease more severe and difficult to treat. In short, in order to avoid dangerous complications that can lead to death, we should know the rules to prevent foreign bodies from eating as above. Because that is also the best way to prevent foreign bodies from eating sugar for each person.
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