During the Qingming Festival, all things revive. The fresh and tender wormwood growing on the ridges and in the wild allows the people of Xiaoshan to make all kinds of green balls. They can be packed into their favorite fillings according to their personal tastes, and can be kneaded into various shapes.
But this kind of food can also hurt people.
Recently, the emergency department of the Second District Hospital admitted an old man who suffered from severe suffocation after eating yogurt, resulting in cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest.
At that time, the old man had dilated pupils and fixed cyanosis, stopped breathing and heartbeat, and could not measure blood pressure. The emergency team immediately gave chest compressions and tracheal intubation, and immediately removed the stuck in the airway of the old man. A big chunk of blue in the depths.
After a series of rescues against time, the old man’s heart finally started beating again after 14 minutes. Because the old man suffocated for a long time, he was sent to the intensive care department for follow-up treatment.
Qing Tuan removed from the airway of the elderly
The doctor reminds: the elderly have bad teeth, The swallowing function is degraded, and soft and sticky foods such as green balls, glutinous rice cakes, rice balls, rice cakes, etc. are easily stuck in the respiratory tract, causing suffocation. It is recommended that the elderly eat as little of these foods as possible.
How to first aid for foreign body choking
Heimlich manoeuvre
Heimlich manoeuvre There are many versions of the method: adults, children, infants, pregnant women, etc., but the principle is the same: instantly compress the chest cavity, and let the rapid airflow from the lungs flush the foreign body out.
List of choking foods
1. Very sticky pastries
Not only green balls, but rice cakes, zongzi, glutinous rice balls, mochi balls, etc. The common feature of these foods is that they are very sticky and difficult to swallow. Therefore, it is not recommended for the elderly and children to eat. If you want to eat it, you must cut it into small pieces. You should not eat too much at one time, and your family should accompany you when eating.
2. Nuts
Nuts are almost No.1 on the blacklist of suffocating foods because they are relatively hard and small in size, and are easy to swallow without adequate chewing. Again, try not to give it to children and the elderly, but it can be ground into powder or small granules before eating.
3. Round, small food
Small, round food like candy, quail eggs, cherries, longan, and grapes slip into Throat is prone to choking and choking.
4. Jelly
Although QQ jelly bites very well, but because it is too Q, it is easy to suck the whole jelly into the mouth at once, and it is easy to get stuck in the throat , When giving jelly to the elderly and children, don’t give it as a whole, you can break it first and then give it to the elderly and children.
5. Foods that are hard to chew
There are also hard-to-chew foods like bean sprouts, celery, shredded squid, and beef jerky, which are not suitable for the elderly and children.
6. Spiny, bone-in meat
Meat is high in protein, but like some spiny fish meat and meat with small bones, it is easy to get stuck and can be selected Cod, salmon, dragonfish, sea bass, pomfret and other fish with few thorns are for the elderly to eat. When handling other meat food, it is best to check carefully to ensure that there are no brittle bones, bone residue, etc.
Source: The Second People’s Hospital of Xiaoshan District