Have you asked; Why do I keep choking when I eat and can still breathe? There is some alarming data that has been collected, see if you fall for any of these typical shocking statistics. Are you in your late 40s or older, slightly or more than slightly overweight, choking on coated tablets, red meat, lettuce, baked potatoes, or cheese?
Does your esophagus close up but you can still breathe, and trying to wash a liquid down, does it really make you choke on the liquid trying to go down your windpipe? Is there an unmistakable gurgling sound that accompanies this condition? Well, welcome to the club!
It seems that there are many people with this problem. The most alarming facts are those mentioned above, over 40 years of age, overweight and choking on specific foods or pills. It seems that there is a chemical reaction to certain foods or textures, at certain times when we are eating.
Here’s something else that seems to happen once you’ve encountered this problem more than once or twice. If you have been suffering from a lump in your throat, when you are eating in public with other people around you or with you, you become self-conscious and tend to choke more often, right? That is a form of anxiety or subconscious thinking, that an attack is very possible and you just can’t avoid it.
I’m not a doctor and don’t intend to play one in this article, but being a stubborn man reluctant to put my high-quality healthcare to the test, I’ve found some interesting things that work fairly consistently, when I try to avoid or free myself from this clogged esophagus.
First of all, you have to try to avoid certain foods that contribute greatly to this health scare that we are subjecting ourselves to. Red meat is big, if you must choose to eat red meat, cook it well and cut it into very small pieces. The rarer the meat, the worse it is for choking. Coated tablets, switch to an uncoated dissolving tablet for the same prescription. The capsule coating is a chemical reaction in the back of your throat, which just doesn’t work for you. Over weight? Losing as much as possible, I lost 15 pounds and went over a year without choking. That alone, is what seemed to work for me, in addition to following the other items mentioned. Once the weight was back on, here came my suffocation again.
How to clear the throat of blockage or spasm
The absolute MUST is to RELAX and that is not easy. If you find that you can actually breathe, the only problem is getting your esophagus to relax and open. Most people think that their throat is normally open, but the opposite is true. Your throat is normally closed and when you swallow, it opens to allow food to pass.
ATTENTION: Try using a cup of hot water and drink a small amount, less than a normal size swallow, to allow it to sit in the back of your throat for just a few seconds and allow your throat to recognize it as just a bit of warm water. . Any other type of beverage has sugar, carbonation, or other ingredients that are actually foreign to your body’s natural fluid intake.
Remember from science class, your body is 75% water. This water trick or method has proven to work 90% of the time for me, the only times it hasn’t was when I couldn’t seem to relax enough from my high blood pressure or anxiety of being impatient and allow myself to relax.
It’s not a race, don’t treat it like one or you’ll just expect more. Just know that a cup of water as warm as a cup of coffee works best. If you are with other people, ask them to heat a cup of water for you when you leave or go to the bathroom, to spit out or try to clear your throat. A cup of water heated in a microwave oven for about 1 minute is a great mixture to open up the esophagus.
The latest medical treatment is to seek the advice of a doctor as well, but be sure to explain that your throat instantly spasms without warning when you eat certain foods. So ask the question; Why do I keep choking when I eat and can still breathe? Whatever they tell you, make sure you share it with us who suffer too. The more information we can collect, the better off we all will be.
I have two friends with the same problem and they both had their throats pulled by different doctors in an outpatient procedure. This is a temporary fix for some time, and the condition may return later. Enlarging the esophagus for a time seems to postpone this recurrence.