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How To Get A Fish Bone Out Of Your Throat?
1. Cough
Your first instinct will be to cough, and you should follow it. Coughing is your body’s first line of defense against all sorts of interlopers, from germs to soda that went down the wrong way.
Oftentimes, coughing hard for a few minutes will blow enough air against the bone to dislodge it. If you’re lucky, you can just cough the bone right back up and let your throat recover.
If that doesn’t work, keep on scrolling.
2. Swallow Olive Oil
If you can’t cough the bone away, it’s time to start incorporating added materials that can help coax it free. Olive oil is a signature solution, because it’s a great lubricant.
Oil won’t dissolve immediately in with your saliva and digestive juices the way water will, so it’s a better option for trying to wash the fish bone down.
The oil will make the bones slick and slippery, and will also help to soften it and weigh it down so that you can swallow the bone away.
3. Sip Vinegar
You can try sipping a little bit of diluted vinegar to help move the bone along. The jury is still out on this method, but lots of people say that mixing up a solution of vinegar and water gets rid of the fish bone by dissolving it.
Fish bones are usually fairly delicate and fragile, and vinegar is an acid, so the idea is that the vinegar would help hasten the process of the stomach acid to dissolve the bone in your throat. The main drawback to this method is that it might take a little longer.
4. Dunk Bread In Warm Water
The bread method works a bit like the marshmallow method. Tear off a piece of dry bread and slightly dunk it in warm water or milk.
Immediately ball up the bread and swallow it whole. The hope is that the rough texture of the bread, and the stickiness from the milk or water, will help to snag the bone from wherever it’s lodged and carry it away.
When To Go To The Doctor
If you’ve tried all of these methods and nothing is working, go to a doctor to get the bone removed.
Usually, this can be done very quickly and painlessly, though in extreme cases, minor surgery may be required. In rare cases, injury from a fish bone may be life-threatening.
You should also go to the doctor immediately if there is excessive bleeding (more than a drop), intense pain, a puncture wound, or a blockage in the airway.
Anyone choking on a fish bone or unable to breathe must call 911 and get emergency medical attention.
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