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Try taking a very deep breath IN immediately before swallowing anything.
Breathing in WHILE SWALLOWING is dangerous.
I’ve seen people die from choking on many simple things.
Way back when I was a Family Doc, I put big photos on waiting room walls of autopsy findings from dead children who had choked to death on toy balloons.
People don’t realize the great danger of balloons. Small kids tend to bite them; they explode and fragments can be aspirated, covering the airway, but too far down to be removed w/o instruments, so they die.
leVieux
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Try taking a very deep breath IN immediately before swallowing anything.
Breathing in WHILE SWALLOWING is dangerous.
I’ve seen people die from choking on many simple things.
Way back when I was a Family Doc, I put big photos on waiting room walls of autopsy findings from dead children who had choked to death on toy balloons.
People don’t realize the great danger of balloons. Small kids tend to bite them; they explode and fragments can be aspirated, covering the airway, but too far down to be removed w/o instruments, so they die.
leVieux
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