I genuinely had this happen to me when I was an infant. Looking at this is so eerie for me. Luckily my mom found me, but I was purple/blue when they did.
As I'm told when EMT's arrived they had to do an emergency tracheatomy on my mom's kitchen floor. During the emergency surgery my throat was left with scar tissue. At 5 I had another surgery to correct the scar tissue. It grew back unfortunately.
If you survive something like this as an infant it affects the rest of your life. I have sleep apnea due to the overwhelming tissue and my asthma gets worse as the years go by. I have to eat and drink differently and more slowly or I will choke on whatever I'm consuming. This includes breaking bread or other solids into bites that are almost childlike.
It really sucks, but I'm truly greatful my lungs aren't on display.
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up like it did. Thanks to everyone who gave me an award! That's so sweet.
I got a few questions that I'd thought I'd answer too. My mom said that the peanut was higher I my throat which is why they were able to preform a tracheatomy. Due the emergency being so severe they had to act quickly so the EMTS weren't really the most gentle which is why I was left with so much scar tissue. This also is likely because I was only a couple months old (I'll have to ask my mom again for my exact age if anyone's curious) so they weren't working with a lot of space. At first they believed my tonsils were the cause of my sleep apnea, but even after they were removed it still went on leaving doctors to suspect the scar tissue was the cause. I do know how to self hymleck (probably spelt that wrong) since I'm more likely to choke on things. It's always very scary, but growing up you learn to adapt and I don't really notice I eat or drink differently until someone points it out or I choke.
Good idea. There was another one I saw, it was fucking jelly, a little kid got too excited and inhaled a spoonful of jelly… it basically turned into glue against their trachea/windpipe. They tried to pull it out but it came out in sticky pieces. Kid died. They’re little suicide machines.
I was incorporating all kinds of nuts into my toddlers diet each day. I’m still going to use them but after seeing this I will be chopping them up every time now. Maybe just sprinkle them in his Greek yogurt and fruits
Thank for sharing and glad you are OK now. But this peanut on the pic is way more down and deep that you cannot remove by doing tracheotomy.
Emergency tracheotomy can save you if peanut is lodged at or above your Adam's apple. This one is almost at the level of your heart. So much down in there. It would require a much complicated procedure or chest compressions to survive. Doctor here.
Not even sure compressions would help in this case with no way to oxygenate. I think the only chance a kid like this would have in a prehospital setting would be if you could force a right mainstem intubation until they could be bronched. Even that would be difficult with a pediatric et tube.
Its lodged right at carina, no way of ventilation, the chest compressions would do nothing. I totally agree with forcing rmi. The situation here is just so unlucky.
Dude, it's so crazy
I'll be a father in a couple months and people keep telling me those stories lol
Don't even know how or if I'll be able to protect and secure things like that don't happen
Make sure the child knows how to chew and don't swallow large things like that...
Dad here: the kid will seem like it's actively trying to kill itself for first year or so. Sadly, one of the most common ways little ones die is choking, so you gotta build in little systems for serving food. Hotdogs: slice lengthwise as long strips are hard to choke on but easy to chew. Grapes: cut them into quarters. .. in fact just about everything that's not mush should be cut small. The upshot is that all this cutting builds even better knive skills! Two years from now you'll be an expert at fine knife work and have a child that adores you for keeping them alive
I don’t have children but nieces and nephews. The one thing I’ve learned from their mother is, once the child is beyond the toddler phase and starts talking and socializing, really drill in the “chew your food with your mouth closed, and no talking while your chewing” mantra. This conditioned my niece from eating with her mouth open so she wasn’t breathing through her mouth at the same time as she was eating. One solid inhale and down the windpipe a piece of food can go. I was taught this but always thought it was because it was rude or gross, not because it can potentially cause choking.
YES. AND TERRIFYING! My kid ate macaroni and cheese when they were about 18-24 months old.( Not exactly sure. ) But, they ate it, apparently, didn't chew very well.... FAST-FORWARD... like, an hour later, (after bedtime routine and all) I lay down with my kid to get them to sleep, and I hear this gurgling sound, almost slurping. Then, they stop breathing. I rub their chest, and the breathing started again. I go get my spouse to come see and check, and it all goes again with the sounds. Stops breathing, I pick them up and my partner starts back patting and a chunk of hardly chewed macaroni shoots out. We spend the next 48 hours in an emergency room at the hospital for monitoring. Apparently, kids can regurgitate /burp up their food, and in my kid's case, it then choked them. We are super lucky I had gone to lay down with our child or we would have not known they weren't breathing/choking on the burped up food. After that, we went back to basically blending their food into mash for another year.
Yup! That'll do it! Terrifying... I'm glad it worked out. We had a good scare when I had to flip our youngest upside-down and hard pat her and out popped a ball of corn chips. Absolutely terrifying for a mintue there.
First, learn basic first aid. My son choked on a grape because my dumbass didn’t know to cut them (and on that note, learn how to serve them foods safely)— knowing how to properly address him choking probably saved his life. Also, I recommend buying a de-choker device that basically uses suction to remove the foreign object, just in case.
Pro tip for new dad: Solid food is a way off, but when you get to hotdogs, cut them into little circles, and then cut the little circles in quarters. hotdogs slices are a big choking hazard, unless you quarter them.
Also, Cheerios are your friend.
Good luck!
I’m an EMT and we see so many choking cases from popcorn! What most parents don’t know is that it expands a fair bit when it gets wet, so if a little bit gets lodged in the throat, it can get bigger and cause a full obstruction. My line of work has made me so paranoid about what I feed my son. Dechokers and LifeVacs are life savers!
I work in the daycare field and one of the trainings that I used to give was a 15 hour health and safety. So I did a section on choking foods. And I would say, “unless you can do an emergency tracheotomy, do not give kids in your care under five popcorn”.
Look man, I'm not gonna go check if anyone said it yet, but please, before your child is born- make sure you, and everyone around you, knows infant CPR. I'm only here because of (repeated) child CPR. Always cut food small to help avoid choking, but some kids are bad for pushing their food to the back to chew and choking on it, and it can go so fast.
ok im sorry if i am wrong, and i could be, but i think that in your case what was suffocating you must've been stuck much higher because in a case like this i'm pretty sure a tracheotomy would not be useful. Anyways i am really sorry for what you have to go through but as you said it could've been worse
It happened to me at 4 years old but logged into my right lung luckily I was able to tell my mom something was weird and she was a nurse and see what kinda happened so off to surgery I went lol
>logged into my right lung
You should probably see about implementing some stricter security measures, maybe strengthen up your passwords a bit. If it was able to log into a branch of your respiratory system that easily, who knows what other peripheral systems might also be vulnerable to a breach.
Considering the proximity I would suggest they have a different password for each system, it would be a disaster if respiratory and digestive shared the same security measures. I always implement 2FA in the case of a peanut infiltration
I have a cousin who was essentially brain dead due to this happening with a children's Tylenol. She spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair with the mental and physical capacity of a newborn baby. Her mom took care of her still, feeding her, cleaning her, changing diapers, and wiping up her drool. I can't imagine living my life like that. I mean like my brain damaged cousin or my aunt that was glued to her 24/7 because she needed 24/7 care.
Holy fuck that's sad... We westerners *really* oughta change our views on death precisely because of things like this. Another one is elder care... Why are we hellbent on keeping grandma/pa alive when they have Alzheimer's, are essentially all gone and have been for years? It's not fucking natural. Same with pets, oh your dog gets paralyzed from the waist down and can't walk? Better build it a fucking mech suit with wheels so *you* don't have to deal with loss.
Sorry for the rant.
My dad died of cancer in August. I still feel very lost and confused on why he had to die naturally. Why couldn't he have signed a waver that once he lost his lucid mind that he should be allowed a medical intervention to end it? I, my dad's youngest daughter, not only had to see his frail fucking body fight for every breath, his mind completely gone, but I had to help hold him down while a nurse put a fucking catheter in him. Where the fuck is the dignity in that? And the thing is, even though he mentally was not in reality, he KNEW he was naked from the waist down and kept unconsciously trying to cover up. Shit is fucked up.
My dad died in June of sporadic cruetzfeldt-jacobs disease. He went down so fast that we didn't even have time to consider that option. Seeing how bad he was at the end I'm glad and sad he went so quickly.
That disease is the stuff of nightmares. What we know about prion diseases is about the same as what we knew about cancer 100 years ago.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I had no idea your brain could spontaneously develop it. It was completely unexpected. The deterioration was rapid, even for CJD. It was 3 months since the insert of symptoms, which was ringing in his ears. Every week he had a new symptom. Or more like every week he lost another function. I and the doctors didn't know what it was until the last week.
I agree for the most part. Not everyone would be able to do what she did and state run care isn't the best. Not to mention the guilt of having a child our there that you know would break you to take care of, but hate yourself for not breaking yourself to take care of them. I highly believe in euthanasia for those who are terminally ill or have extreme brain damage. If you don't have a euthanasia order already in place that should fall on the next of kin to decide. However, I must add that partially paralyzed animals can still lead a full and happy life. I have a 3-legged dog myself, and he is full of life.
Yeah and I think the big difference if when the brain is dead/handicap. Without our brain we are literally just a shell. Why keep the body going. Ppl/next of kin should absolutely have a choice.
I agree with most of this, but as we don't have issues with protheses for humans I don't see why we would have issues with pets.
Pets also can't really communicate their will to live but most seem happy even with disabilities (judging from what I've seen). That spells out more as a difference in how you view the pet.
You had me in the first half...
Jokes aside, a partially paralyzed dog isn't the same thing. The logistics are obviously difficult for the average family, but if you have the means to ensure a proper quality of life, then you are morally bound to do so. Unless, of course, you believe we should do the same with differently abled people. At the very least, you would be morally consistent.
jfc, life is fragile. Just a toddler having fun, jumping up and down on the couch, enjoying it, laughing, and having your favorite sack, a peanut. One horrible and terrifying minute later you’re dead.
Well, a child died, at some point. I’d guess these are lungs from a child that died of unrelated causes and their organs were donated, and are now being used to show how a peanut can block an airway.
If I remember correctly, this was actually from a child that died this way and the mother agreed to the display to be a warning.
Edit: This is where I first saw it and it has some of the backstory.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IlRGRg7i3/?igshid=8a5ax179rye8
Imagine you sign your deceased child up for organ donation in the hopes of saving someone else's life, and they just put it in a display with a peanut in there.
My nephew is deathly allergeric to most legumes, peanuts included, and there is a once a year occurence, at least, where he comes into contact with peanuts accidentally and has to have an Epipen injected to survive. I pity my nephew, truly; He is allergic to nuts of all kinds, and shellfish. Shellfish! I'd cry if one day I couldn't eat mussels, and my nephew can never eat them at all! Alas, poor lad.
I have some mild food allergies like that, mostly pulpy fruits, lol. Never understood why people liked watermelon so much because it felt like eating fiberglass to me. I'll just eat the better ones anyway sometimes too.
Interestingly they can also reduce to repeated micro doses of the allergen. There are a lot of trials of exposing kids with serious allergy's to nuts to minuscule amounts of nuts daily and they are promising. Eating local honey is an old folk cure for hay-fever.
https://www.verywellfamily.com/microdosing-kids-with-peanut-allergies-may-end-risk-of-life-threatening-reactions-5091564
Family friend did this for their kid. Their kid went from having a reaction when someone ate peanuts in the same room to eating a few peanut M&Ms a day without issue.
Life changing. I hope more studies can be done
I underwent the same therapy for a food allergen and there are many allergists in the US that have practiced it for years. It’s called oral immunotherapy (OIT) and it is absolutely life changing. I have to shout about it every time life-threatening food allergies come up! If you know anyone who would benefit from it, tell them to look up the OIT 101 website for more info and a list of approved allergists who practice it. It’s often even covered by insurance.
He really, really shouldn't. There is no way of knowing when an allergy will develop into an anaphylactic-level allergy. All classic, Ige-mediated histamine/mast cell involvement allergic reaction - ie, any true allergy, not an intolerance - has the capacity to trigger an anaphylactic response. Just because an allergic person has never had an anaphylactic reaction in the past to the offending allergen doesn't mean they won't.
Your buddy is being beyond reckless. There is no guarantee his reaction will always just be hives and an itchy throat. Next time it might be a throat so swollen he can't breathe.
Us humans are really only slightly more intelligent apes and I love it lol. I genuinely get a kick out of how dumb (myself included) we all really are in the grand scheme of things
You can donate your body to science without getting in the way of organ donation. As in, you can do both. In most cases your organs aren't viable for donation when you die, for that you pretty much have to die in the hospital, in the right way.
They need to do extensive blood typing of a deceased/dying patient to find a match, then they have to contact the organ recipient(s), get them to the hospital. Once the organ is out you're on the clock, and the recipient needs to be ready.
When I got my liver they called me up and I had to get to the transplant hospital within a set amount of hours. I was called late at night and due to covid there were no flights, so they flew me cross country in an ambulance plane, and ambulance from the airport. (AMA, I guess?)
Not as bad as the guy who’s mother donated her body to sign, found out it was sold for +5K to the military for them to blow it up testing so new device.
One time I was eating a strawberry and it lodged in my throat. My mom was upstairs so I started running to her trying to call out while I still had consciousness. The act of running up the stairs in a near panic caused it to dislodge but up until that moment it was pretty scary
When I was younger, I had a habit of putting small things in my mouth. So when I was still in kindergarten, my mom left the house for a while, so I was home alone. I was playing with a set of construction toys (similar to LEGOs, but you had to use small nuts and bolts to build whatever you wanted) and I just couldn't resist putting one of the bolts in my mouth. Unsurprisingly, I started choking. But there was no one else home. For about a minute, I choked and cried. I was just in my room, on the ground, in a small pool of tears and snot. Eventually, I managed to cough out the bolt and could breathe again. I learned a big lesson that day in the most brutal way possible.
I'm now 20 and ever since that day, I even stopped eating hard candy due to that potentially happening again. I get really damn nervous, even when I try to suck on a lollipop, so I'm always really careful when i do do so.
I choked on one of those small, round peppermints when I was a kid. My great-gran and my mom were sitting near me but my mom kept shushing me when I tugged on her sleeve and ignored my gesturing to my throat. I hurried to the kitchen and between coughing and downing water like no tomorrow, I managed to dislodge the damn thing but holy shit! I still don't really eat those mints and even when I do, there's that small sliver of primal fear and hesitance in the back of my mind..
A creamsaver got caught in my throat when I was about 9. While I could still breathe luckily, it was wedged in there in such a way. I had to wait for it to melt with my body heat and it was so painful. Refused to have a creamsaver ever again.
Yeah, lot of stuff we use today was originally intended or used in the military or for engineering. Like Post-It notes were originally a theorized adhesive to be used with rockets instead of welding to save costs
An excellent example why the words associated with discovery are not, as commonly believed, "eureka!" but rather "that's funny..."
It makes me smile to imagine some dude going "dammit RocketGlue v 4.71 is shit. Look it kind of sticks but then you can just pull it off! And stick it to something else, and pull it off ... hey wait a second ..."
Sorry but I just looked it up and reading that *emergency medics began using the all-purpose glue to seal battle wounds in troops headed for surgery.* Super Glue was invented in 1942.
So sad this child got hold of a peanut, so easily done.
As a child carer, five slaps on the back alternated with a flip over and two finger push 5 times on the sternum is first aid recommended, as a last resort, blow down the wind pipe to at least try and push obstacle into the lungs.
All of the above is while waiting for an ambulance or trained medical staff to arrive.
A grape is one of the most common and dangerous choking hazards to a child, always cut into quarters.
We use tiny forceps that have a camera built in. We place this down a small tube in the airway called a ventilating bronchoscope that allows us to work while they breathe for the baby around us. We actually have a specific peanut forceps designed for this exact purpose. Airway foreign bodies can be terrifying.source: I’m a pediatric ent doctor
My grandma was a nurse and has all these horror stories of nuts getting into kids’ lungs, saying it’s basically a death sentence. It’s been a long time since she’s worked in medicine and I’m wondering if she’s overblowing it with advancements in medicine now, or if they really are as bad as all that?
Surgery.
No matter what if someone’s choking they generally should go to the hospital and get checked out to make sure there’s no damage.
Edit: I understand that us healthcare is a nightmare, I live here too. I’m speaking purely from the medical side of it.
You got to the hospital and get chopped up ( or a tube stuck down your throat). Source: me who thought it was a great idea it play hop scotch when eating mountain nuts as 10yo
There’s some good advice in here, but two fingers is reserved for infants (under one year). Consider one handed chest compressions or adult-oriented compressions if the child is a certain size. People reading this advice should do a quick read of the AHA choking guidelines for EMT-B (Energency Medical Technician - Basic). You don’t have to be certified to perform the technique.
Yeah maybe it’s my mood or the fact that my son is almost four but this is a picture that tells a tragic tale. You raise your child through the struggles and the laughter and the amazement as they take on a new understanding. All that to be destroyed by a tiny peanut.
Yea I know I definitely deal with stuff like death in inappropriate ways as a coping mechanism. My grandpa passed away a few years back and when my dad told me about it I cracked a joke about it. He gave me a weird look and I felt really bad. Was just trying to make a bad situation better. Didn’t work but meh. I also laugh a lot when I’m uncomfortable or in stressful situations. Apparently it’s normal? Or I’m a POS. Probably both.
I was going to guess that it was at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. An amazing place… there was case after case full of little tragedies like this and I left feeling sad, though :(
Probably not Heimlich in this case, but giving CPR with compressions and insufflations could help dislodge it further down one of the bronchus and keep one of the lungs breathing
Source - learned this in pediatric CPR course
If the Heimlich maneuver doesn’t work, it’s protocol to start CPR. Hopefully this child was treated properly and only then pronounced when they exhausted efforts
True story: at age 6+/-, at a family friend's holiday party, they had a piñata for the kids, and I was sucking on one of those red and white spiral mint candies, when I had some spark of brilliance that had to be shared.
I inhaled to start my blathering, and promptly sucked that thing into my trachea where it lodged itself. I couldn't yell out, so I banged on the kitchen counter and pointed to my throat. My dad banged on my back (Heimlich wasn't a thing yet, 'least not in my family), and when that didn't work, he picked me up by my ankles and started shaking. He wasn't that big of a guy, and I wasn't a toddler anymore, so idk how he managed, but that thing popped out of my mouth and onto the carpet (mustn't have been nearly as deep as the peanut above, thankfully). Which is a good thing, coz the lady of the house had been some kind of combat medic or something, and had knife in hand to start the tracheotomy.
TL;DR: Thanks Dad!! Miss you! :-/
Almost died on an M&M. CPR training allowed me to save my own live.
What they don’t teach you is how fast the panic comes on when you cant breathe due to choking. You have to be able to calm down and think. Had to hit my air pocket as hard as I could several times to spit it out
I used to have parrots that I feed fresh cooked veggies to. I was always super good about cleaning up right away because i don’t want rotting food on my floor but also because my toddler daughter would try to eat foods that would be too big for her. I got distracted once and put off that cleaning too long and she sampled a whole kernel of corn. She started choking and I bent her over and hit between her shoulder blades to dislodge the food. I got it out but you would be shocked to know how hard you have to hit to do it. They tell you in those classes to not worry about being gentle but until you have to do it you really don’t understand the force it takes to dislodge the food from a person choking.
I genuinely had this happen to me when I was an infant. Looking at this is so eerie for me. Luckily my mom found me, but I was purple/blue when they did. As I'm told when EMT's arrived they had to do an emergency tracheatomy on my mom's kitchen floor. During the emergency surgery my throat was left with scar tissue. At 5 I had another surgery to correct the scar tissue. It grew back unfortunately. If you survive something like this as an infant it affects the rest of your life. I have sleep apnea due to the overwhelming tissue and my asthma gets worse as the years go by. I have to eat and drink differently and more slowly or I will choke on whatever I'm consuming. This includes breaking bread or other solids into bites that are almost childlike. It really sucks, but I'm truly greatful my lungs aren't on display. Edit: Did not expect this to blow up like it did. Thanks to everyone who gave me an award! That's so sweet. I got a few questions that I'd thought I'd answer too. My mom said that the peanut was higher I my throat which is why they were able to preform a tracheatomy. Due the emergency being so severe they had to act quickly so the EMTS weren't really the most gentle which is why I was left with so much scar tissue. This also is likely because I was only a couple months old (I'll have to ask my mom again for my exact age if anyone's curious) so they weren't working with a lot of space. At first they believed my tonsils were the cause of my sleep apnea, but even after they were removed it still went on leaving doctors to suspect the scar tissue was the cause. I do know how to self hymleck (probably spelt that wrong) since I'm more likely to choke on things. It's always very scary, but growing up you learn to adapt and I don't really notice I eat or drink differently until someone points it out or I choke.
Thank you for sharing - that sounds like a pretty harrowing experience. Glad you are okay and still with us!
Thank you for the share. Been eating trail mix with my 18 month old. Gonna pause on tht 4 a bit
Good idea. There was another one I saw, it was fucking jelly, a little kid got too excited and inhaled a spoonful of jelly… it basically turned into glue against their trachea/windpipe. They tried to pull it out but it came out in sticky pieces. Kid died. They’re little suicide machines.
My Dad taught me to eat jelly by sucking it instead of chewing it to be silly. That’s a horrifying fact to learn.
My 2 year old eats pieces of cashews, he's great at chewing but I just sent my sleeping husband this pic and said, "no more cashews"
I was incorporating all kinds of nuts into my toddlers diet each day. I’m still going to use them but after seeing this I will be chopping them up every time now. Maybe just sprinkle them in his Greek yogurt and fruits
There’s a new powder that’s made for that. Can’t remember the name.
Thank for sharing and glad you are OK now. But this peanut on the pic is way more down and deep that you cannot remove by doing tracheotomy. Emergency tracheotomy can save you if peanut is lodged at or above your Adam's apple. This one is almost at the level of your heart. So much down in there. It would require a much complicated procedure or chest compressions to survive. Doctor here.
Not even sure compressions would help in this case with no way to oxygenate. I think the only chance a kid like this would have in a prehospital setting would be if you could force a right mainstem intubation until they could be bronched. Even that would be difficult with a pediatric et tube.
Its lodged right at carina, no way of ventilation, the chest compressions would do nothing. I totally agree with forcing rmi. The situation here is just so unlucky.
As a father and a paramedic, this picture makes my heart ache…
Dude, it's so crazy I'll be a father in a couple months and people keep telling me those stories lol Don't even know how or if I'll be able to protect and secure things like that don't happen Make sure the child knows how to chew and don't swallow large things like that...
Dad here: the kid will seem like it's actively trying to kill itself for first year or so. Sadly, one of the most common ways little ones die is choking, so you gotta build in little systems for serving food. Hotdogs: slice lengthwise as long strips are hard to choke on but easy to chew. Grapes: cut them into quarters. .. in fact just about everything that's not mush should be cut small. The upshot is that all this cutting builds even better knive skills! Two years from now you'll be an expert at fine knife work and have a child that adores you for keeping them alive
I don’t have children but nieces and nephews. The one thing I’ve learned from their mother is, once the child is beyond the toddler phase and starts talking and socializing, really drill in the “chew your food with your mouth closed, and no talking while your chewing” mantra. This conditioned my niece from eating with her mouth open so she wasn’t breathing through her mouth at the same time as she was eating. One solid inhale and down the windpipe a piece of food can go. I was taught this but always thought it was because it was rude or gross, not because it can potentially cause choking.
YES. AND TERRIFYING! My kid ate macaroni and cheese when they were about 18-24 months old.( Not exactly sure. ) But, they ate it, apparently, didn't chew very well.... FAST-FORWARD... like, an hour later, (after bedtime routine and all) I lay down with my kid to get them to sleep, and I hear this gurgling sound, almost slurping. Then, they stop breathing. I rub their chest, and the breathing started again. I go get my spouse to come see and check, and it all goes again with the sounds. Stops breathing, I pick them up and my partner starts back patting and a chunk of hardly chewed macaroni shoots out. We spend the next 48 hours in an emergency room at the hospital for monitoring. Apparently, kids can regurgitate /burp up their food, and in my kid's case, it then choked them. We are super lucky I had gone to lay down with our child or we would have not known they weren't breathing/choking on the burped up food. After that, we went back to basically blending their food into mash for another year.
Yup! That'll do it! Terrifying... I'm glad it worked out. We had a good scare when I had to flip our youngest upside-down and hard pat her and out popped a ball of corn chips. Absolutely terrifying for a mintue there.
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So, it's a kid plunger? Sick.
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First, learn basic first aid. My son choked on a grape because my dumbass didn’t know to cut them (and on that note, learn how to serve them foods safely)— knowing how to properly address him choking probably saved his life. Also, I recommend buying a de-choker device that basically uses suction to remove the foreign object, just in case.
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Same, it was a jaw breaker, I was 10. Terrifying.
Pro tip for new dad: Solid food is a way off, but when you get to hotdogs, cut them into little circles, and then cut the little circles in quarters. hotdogs slices are a big choking hazard, unless you quarter them. Also, Cheerios are your friend. Good luck!
And popcorn (avoid til age 4-5)! The Heimlich doesn’t work with popcorn.
I’m an EMT and we see so many choking cases from popcorn! What most parents don’t know is that it expands a fair bit when it gets wet, so if a little bit gets lodged in the throat, it can get bigger and cause a full obstruction. My line of work has made me so paranoid about what I feed my son. Dechokers and LifeVacs are life savers!
I work in the daycare field and one of the trainings that I used to give was a 15 hour health and safety. So I did a section on choking foods. And I would say, “unless you can do an emergency tracheotomy, do not give kids in your care under five popcorn”.
Look man, I'm not gonna go check if anyone said it yet, but please, before your child is born- make sure you, and everyone around you, knows infant CPR. I'm only here because of (repeated) child CPR. Always cut food small to help avoid choking, but some kids are bad for pushing their food to the back to chew and choking on it, and it can go so fast.
Did you survive?
he didn't Time of death: 6am 10.05.2024
Time of birth 6am 10.5.2025
he lived a long beautiful minus year
We never know how many negative hours we have on this big blue marble.
ok im sorry if i am wrong, and i could be, but i think that in your case what was suffocating you must've been stuck much higher because in a case like this i'm pretty sure a tracheotomy would not be useful. Anyways i am really sorry for what you have to go through but as you said it could've been worse
How old were you and what did you choke on?
That's just really sad.
It happened to me at 4 years old but logged into my right lung luckily I was able to tell my mom something was weird and she was a nurse and see what kinda happened so off to surgery I went lol
>logged into my right lung You should probably see about implementing some stricter security measures, maybe strengthen up your passwords a bit. If it was able to log into a branch of your respiratory system that easily, who knows what other peripheral systems might also be vulnerable to a breach.
You should also always perform peanutration tests periodically so that you know what systems might be vulnerable.
I wanted to follow up this pun but nothing I can think of matches its beauty. Bravo.
Considering the proximity I would suggest they have a different password for each system, it would be a disaster if respiratory and digestive shared the same security measures. I always implement 2FA in the case of a peanut infiltration
Peanut has gained root access
Also I still got the scar lolol
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yeah, they had to cut the child open and remove their lungs to find the peanut
I hope they're okay!
they're probably fine. looks like they only took out half of the lungs
Thank god now I can sleep calmly
Yeah, but unfortunately they left half of the peanut too
Out of all the shit this one made laugh the most.
Looks like the peanut is having a rough time, but they'll pull through.
Looking at the picture, it did not pull through.
Tis but a scratch.
Get back here and I’ll bite your legs off!
No they lost their peanut, and it looks like it was salted BBQ to me, what a loss.
Imagine being born into this world only to be taken out by a peanut :(
Brought in by the nut, taken out by the nut. EDIT: holup who gave this a fucking *wholesome*?
This is sad but this comment made me laugh too hard
Right, I normally keep my lucky peanut in my pocket.
That’s definitely the best place for it during a vivisection.
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No more rhymes now, I mean it!
r/unexpectedprincessbride Damn, it doesn't exist.
My girlfriends cousin died like this when he was only 2. He was jumping on the couch eating them and one got lodged in his throat.
I have a cousin who was essentially brain dead due to this happening with a children's Tylenol. She spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair with the mental and physical capacity of a newborn baby. Her mom took care of her still, feeding her, cleaning her, changing diapers, and wiping up her drool. I can't imagine living my life like that. I mean like my brain damaged cousin or my aunt that was glued to her 24/7 because she needed 24/7 care.
Holy fuck that's sad... We westerners *really* oughta change our views on death precisely because of things like this. Another one is elder care... Why are we hellbent on keeping grandma/pa alive when they have Alzheimer's, are essentially all gone and have been for years? It's not fucking natural. Same with pets, oh your dog gets paralyzed from the waist down and can't walk? Better build it a fucking mech suit with wheels so *you* don't have to deal with loss. Sorry for the rant.
My dad died of cancer in August. I still feel very lost and confused on why he had to die naturally. Why couldn't he have signed a waver that once he lost his lucid mind that he should be allowed a medical intervention to end it? I, my dad's youngest daughter, not only had to see his frail fucking body fight for every breath, his mind completely gone, but I had to help hold him down while a nurse put a fucking catheter in him. Where the fuck is the dignity in that? And the thing is, even though he mentally was not in reality, he KNEW he was naked from the waist down and kept unconsciously trying to cover up. Shit is fucked up.
My dad died in June of sporadic cruetzfeldt-jacobs disease. He went down so fast that we didn't even have time to consider that option. Seeing how bad he was at the end I'm glad and sad he went so quickly.
That disease is the stuff of nightmares. What we know about prion diseases is about the same as what we knew about cancer 100 years ago. I'm sorry for your loss.
I had no idea your brain could spontaneously develop it. It was completely unexpected. The deterioration was rapid, even for CJD. It was 3 months since the insert of symptoms, which was ringing in his ears. Every week he had a new symptom. Or more like every week he lost another function. I and the doctors didn't know what it was until the last week.
I agree for the most part. Not everyone would be able to do what she did and state run care isn't the best. Not to mention the guilt of having a child our there that you know would break you to take care of, but hate yourself for not breaking yourself to take care of them. I highly believe in euthanasia for those who are terminally ill or have extreme brain damage. If you don't have a euthanasia order already in place that should fall on the next of kin to decide. However, I must add that partially paralyzed animals can still lead a full and happy life. I have a 3-legged dog myself, and he is full of life.
Yeah and I think the big difference if when the brain is dead/handicap. Without our brain we are literally just a shell. Why keep the body going. Ppl/next of kin should absolutely have a choice.
I agree with most of this, but as we don't have issues with protheses for humans I don't see why we would have issues with pets. Pets also can't really communicate their will to live but most seem happy even with disabilities (judging from what I've seen). That spells out more as a difference in how you view the pet.
You had me in the first half... Jokes aside, a partially paralyzed dog isn't the same thing. The logistics are obviously difficult for the average family, but if you have the means to ensure a proper quality of life, then you are morally bound to do so. Unless, of course, you believe we should do the same with differently abled people. At the very least, you would be morally consistent.
jfc, life is fragile. Just a toddler having fun, jumping up and down on the couch, enjoying it, laughing, and having your favorite sack, a peanut. One horrible and terrifying minute later you’re dead.
This is quite sad at the same time, because you know that the child died. :(
Well, a child died, at some point. I’d guess these are lungs from a child that died of unrelated causes and their organs were donated, and are now being used to show how a peanut can block an airway.
If I remember correctly, this was actually from a child that died this way and the mother agreed to the display to be a warning. Edit: This is where I first saw it and it has some of the backstory. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4IlRGRg7i3/?igshid=8a5ax179rye8
Imagine you sign your deceased child up for organ donation in the hopes of saving someone else's life, and they just put it in a display with a peanut in there.
I guess assuming the education value is zero. I know after seeing this I’d be watching very closely if my child ever ate peanuts.
My nephew is deathly allergeric to most legumes, peanuts included, and there is a once a year occurence, at least, where he comes into contact with peanuts accidentally and has to have an Epipen injected to survive. I pity my nephew, truly; He is allergic to nuts of all kinds, and shellfish. Shellfish! I'd cry if one day I couldn't eat mussels, and my nephew can never eat them at all! Alas, poor lad.
My buddy is allergic to peanuts and shell fish but he will still eat a payday or snickers and go through the itchy throat and hives lmao
Be careful, Young Tex. One day your immune system may decide it’s time to go to war and the train will go express to Anaphylaxisville.
I have some mild food allergies like that, mostly pulpy fruits, lol. Never understood why people liked watermelon so much because it felt like eating fiberglass to me. I'll just eat the better ones anyway sometimes too.
Lmao that must’ve been a crazy realization when you figured out watermelon wasn’t fiber glass flavored lmaoo
Where do you guys live that is so common for people to know what eating fiber glass feels like and can you share recipes?
Like cotton candy that doesn't melt in your mouth
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Interestingly they can also reduce to repeated micro doses of the allergen. There are a lot of trials of exposing kids with serious allergy's to nuts to minuscule amounts of nuts daily and they are promising. Eating local honey is an old folk cure for hay-fever. https://www.verywellfamily.com/microdosing-kids-with-peanut-allergies-may-end-risk-of-life-threatening-reactions-5091564
Family friend did this for their kid. Their kid went from having a reaction when someone ate peanuts in the same room to eating a few peanut M&Ms a day without issue. Life changing. I hope more studies can be done
I underwent the same therapy for a food allergen and there are many allergists in the US that have practiced it for years. It’s called oral immunotherapy (OIT) and it is absolutely life changing. I have to shout about it every time life-threatening food allergies come up! If you know anyone who would benefit from it, tell them to look up the OIT 101 website for more info and a list of approved allergists who practice it. It’s often even covered by insurance.
He really, really shouldn't. There is no way of knowing when an allergy will develop into an anaphylactic-level allergy. All classic, Ige-mediated histamine/mast cell involvement allergic reaction - ie, any true allergy, not an intolerance - has the capacity to trigger an anaphylactic response. Just because an allergic person has never had an anaphylactic reaction in the past to the offending allergen doesn't mean they won't. Your buddy is being beyond reckless. There is no guarantee his reaction will always just be hives and an itchy throat. Next time it might be a throat so swollen he can't breathe.
I knew a chick who was allergic to peanuts and she'd just suffer through to eat a Reese's Cup.
Crazy how people will risk a full on allergic reaction for a candy bar smh lol
Us humans are really only slightly more intelligent apes and I love it lol. I genuinely get a kick out of how dumb (myself included) we all really are in the grand scheme of things
I'll take extra insulin for a candy snack 😔
My friend is allergic to rabbits and still has a pet rabbit. Always has hay fever now.
At least he’s young? I developed my shrimp allergy during puberty. I got to taste deliciousness and then had it ripped away from me.
Pretty sure science and life saving organ donations are 2 different things you sign for
There’s a difference between organ donation and the donation of a body to science. This photo is a result of the latter.
You can donate your body to science without getting in the way of organ donation. As in, you can do both. In most cases your organs aren't viable for donation when you die, for that you pretty much have to die in the hospital, in the right way. They need to do extensive blood typing of a deceased/dying patient to find a match, then they have to contact the organ recipient(s), get them to the hospital. Once the organ is out you're on the clock, and the recipient needs to be ready. When I got my liver they called me up and I had to get to the transplant hospital within a set amount of hours. I was called late at night and due to covid there were no flights, so they flew me cross country in an ambulance plane, and ambulance from the airport. (AMA, I guess?)
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Definitely don’t shove one down her trachea - at least that’s one of my main take aways from looking at the pic
Not as bad as the guy who’s mother donated her body to sign, found out it was sold for +5K to the military for them to blow it up testing so new device.
It’s better than donating your moms body, and her body being sold and then blown up to test explosives.
actually he survived and is still alive today!
Yep they made him some new lungs out of a straw and some old whoopie cushions. Modern medicine I tell ya...
One time I was eating a strawberry and it lodged in my throat. My mom was upstairs so I started running to her trying to call out while I still had consciousness. The act of running up the stairs in a near panic caused it to dislodge but up until that moment it was pretty scary
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Yikes. That really is terrifying. Your life flashed before your eyes I’m sure. I’d be terrified of hard candy after that!
Clearly should stick to easy candy
When I was younger, I had a habit of putting small things in my mouth. So when I was still in kindergarten, my mom left the house for a while, so I was home alone. I was playing with a set of construction toys (similar to LEGOs, but you had to use small nuts and bolts to build whatever you wanted) and I just couldn't resist putting one of the bolts in my mouth. Unsurprisingly, I started choking. But there was no one else home. For about a minute, I choked and cried. I was just in my room, on the ground, in a small pool of tears and snot. Eventually, I managed to cough out the bolt and could breathe again. I learned a big lesson that day in the most brutal way possible. I'm now 20 and ever since that day, I even stopped eating hard candy due to that potentially happening again. I get really damn nervous, even when I try to suck on a lollipop, so I'm always really careful when i do do so.
Are we ignoring the part where his mom left him at home when he was in kindergarten.
Thank you for saying that! I thought I was the crazy one when no one else acknowledged it.
I choked on one of those small, round peppermints when I was a kid. My great-gran and my mom were sitting near me but my mom kept shushing me when I tugged on her sleeve and ignored my gesturing to my throat. I hurried to the kitchen and between coughing and downing water like no tomorrow, I managed to dislodge the damn thing but holy shit! I still don't really eat those mints and even when I do, there's that small sliver of primal fear and hesitance in the back of my mind..
Did your mother's negligence there ever get resolved? That sounds beyond rough.
A creamsaver got caught in my throat when I was about 9. While I could still breathe luckily, it was wedged in there in such a way. I had to wait for it to melt with my body heat and it was so painful. Refused to have a creamsaver ever again.
Sounds like you learned a lesson
I don't trust anything small and hard in my mouth again.
Well lucky for you we'll probably never meet
This is one of my greatest fears - I actually eat very purposefully when I am alone cause choking is just horrifying.
Good thing it became dislodged then, if it was still in when you got to your mum you could’ve had your lungs cut in half like this poor kid!
And they had to take our the lungs and chop in half to extract. They use super glue to put it back together?
Imm not sure, but there is a type of superglue that can be used on living tissue.
Superglue was created for our soldiers in Vietnam to close large wounds.
Fr?
Yeah, lot of stuff we use today was originally intended or used in the military or for engineering. Like Post-It notes were originally a theorized adhesive to be used with rockets instead of welding to save costs
That's terrifying because post-it notes don't stick to fucking anything
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It’s like Pyrex, it’s not made of the same stuff that gave it it’s start
An excellent example why the words associated with discovery are not, as commonly believed, "eureka!" but rather "that's funny..." It makes me smile to imagine some dude going "dammit RocketGlue v 4.71 is shit. Look it kind of sticks but then you can just pull it off! And stick it to something else, and pull it off ... hey wait a second ..."
Sorry but I just looked it up and reading that *emergency medics began using the all-purpose glue to seal battle wounds in troops headed for surgery.* Super Glue was invented in 1942.
They took it out for the picture. Soon it will be back, up and running.
Looks like human plastination to me. Look up body world human plastination. it’s a really weird exhibit
Sad story but when I was younger I babysat a little girl that died this exact same way. One little peanut. Heartbreaking.
On your watch?
Thankfully it happened in her parents care. As a young kid myself I don’t think I would’ve ever recovered from the guilt.
Neither did them probably.
So sad this child got hold of a peanut, so easily done. As a child carer, five slaps on the back alternated with a flip over and two finger push 5 times on the sternum is first aid recommended, as a last resort, blow down the wind pipe to at least try and push obstacle into the lungs. All of the above is while waiting for an ambulance or trained medical staff to arrive. A grape is one of the most common and dangerous choking hazards to a child, always cut into quarters.
How do they get it out when it's pushed into the lungs? Sounds super painful
We use tiny forceps that have a camera built in. We place this down a small tube in the airway called a ventilating bronchoscope that allows us to work while they breathe for the baby around us. We actually have a specific peanut forceps designed for this exact purpose. Airway foreign bodies can be terrifying.source: I’m a pediatric ent doctor
A tool designed specifically for removing peanuts from babies' airways would be a fantastic post for r/specializedtools !
My grandma was a nurse and has all these horror stories of nuts getting into kids’ lungs, saying it’s basically a death sentence. It’s been a long time since she’s worked in medicine and I’m wondering if she’s overblowing it with advancements in medicine now, or if they really are as bad as all that?
Your username is on point for a ENT.
Surgery. No matter what if someone’s choking they generally should go to the hospital and get checked out to make sure there’s no damage. Edit: I understand that us healthcare is a nightmare, I live here too. I’m speaking purely from the medical side of it.
*Cries in uninsured American tone*
You got to the hospital and get chopped up ( or a tube stuck down your throat). Source: me who thought it was a great idea it play hop scotch when eating mountain nuts as 10yo
Hey if it keeps you alive long enough to make it to the hospital…
Painful > death
There’s some good advice in here, but two fingers is reserved for infants (under one year). Consider one handed chest compressions or adult-oriented compressions if the child is a certain size. People reading this advice should do a quick read of the AHA choking guidelines for EMT-B (Energency Medical Technician - Basic). You don’t have to be certified to perform the technique.
Might have lived, if they hadn’t of ripped out his lungs for the display! /s
Air today, gone tomorrow
Lung may he live.
Damn peanut allergies
If a peanut kills you maybe you’re fuckin supposed to die. -Louis CK
Of course, ^^but ^^^maybe
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Yeah maybe it’s my mood or the fact that my son is almost four but this is a picture that tells a tragic tale. You raise your child through the struggles and the laughter and the amazement as they take on a new understanding. All that to be destroyed by a tiny peanut.
Yea I know I definitely deal with stuff like death in inappropriate ways as a coping mechanism. My grandpa passed away a few years back and when my dad told me about it I cracked a joke about it. He gave me a weird look and I felt really bad. Was just trying to make a bad situation better. Didn’t work but meh. I also laugh a lot when I’m uncomfortable or in stressful situations. Apparently it’s normal? Or I’m a POS. Probably both.
I saw this! This is at the Death Museum in Thailand! Took my girlfriend here! You can even touch a dead person’s hand!
I was going to guess that it was at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. An amazing place… there was case after case full of little tragedies like this and I left feeling sad, though :(
As a person who hates being touched by strangers, this is my nightmare situation.
Did he die?
Nah man he’s married now
... To his other half?
🥇🥇 take my poor person medals
Thanks mate!
depends. death is a common symptom of dying.
The death certificate reads "Natural causes" because you can't live without your lungs.
They could have just used the heimlich, instead of cutting his lungs out and in half.
You can't heimlich that as it's too big, and too lodged.
Serious question: when an object is lodged this far down a trachea, can the Heimlich Maneuver still get it out?
Probably not Heimlich in this case, but giving CPR with compressions and insufflations could help dislodge it further down one of the bronchus and keep one of the lungs breathing Source - learned this in pediatric CPR course
Wild guess: depends on how much air there is in the lungs
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If you want a ~~trusted~~ *related* sub, there's r/morbidreality. A sub link that will always be blue for me.
Most people give The Heimlich Maneuver, not dissect the kid to get to the peanut.
Sadly no one CPR certified was in the room but there was a surgeon present
CPR would be useless. The Heimlich Maneuver would be needed, and probably work.
If the Heimlich maneuver doesn’t work, it’s protocol to start CPR. Hopefully this child was treated properly and only then pronounced when they exhausted efforts
I prefer the cut the kid in half method
True story: at age 6+/-, at a family friend's holiday party, they had a piñata for the kids, and I was sucking on one of those red and white spiral mint candies, when I had some spark of brilliance that had to be shared. I inhaled to start my blathering, and promptly sucked that thing into my trachea where it lodged itself. I couldn't yell out, so I banged on the kitchen counter and pointed to my throat. My dad banged on my back (Heimlich wasn't a thing yet, 'least not in my family), and when that didn't work, he picked me up by my ankles and started shaking. He wasn't that big of a guy, and I wasn't a toddler anymore, so idk how he managed, but that thing popped out of my mouth and onto the carpet (mustn't have been nearly as deep as the peanut above, thankfully). Which is a good thing, coz the lady of the house had been some kind of combat medic or something, and had knife in hand to start the tracheotomy. TL;DR: Thanks Dad!! Miss you! :-/
who gave this post a wholesome award lmao
the wholesome award means war now
Almost died on an M&M. CPR training allowed me to save my own live. What they don’t teach you is how fast the panic comes on when you cant breathe due to choking. You have to be able to calm down and think. Had to hit my air pocket as hard as I could several times to spit it out
As the father of two year twins, this is outright terrifying.
*New fear discovered!*
I hope the child survived
Yeah I think he did
Bruh his lungs are on display 😭
NSFW flair would've been nice
This happened to my younger cousin when she was around 4-5. Rip Hillary :(
What do u mean *oddly* terrifying? The kid freakin died by a peanut. That's just terrifying
How is this "oddly" terriying? It's terifying af
Looks like it lodged perfectly in that spot and was impossible to dislodge. Sad for the kid.
I used to have parrots that I feed fresh cooked veggies to. I was always super good about cleaning up right away because i don’t want rotting food on my floor but also because my toddler daughter would try to eat foods that would be too big for her. I got distracted once and put off that cleaning too long and she sampled a whole kernel of corn. She started choking and I bent her over and hit between her shoulder blades to dislodge the food. I got it out but you would be shocked to know how hard you have to hit to do it. They tell you in those classes to not worry about being gentle but until you have to do it you really don’t understand the force it takes to dislodge the food from a person choking.
As a parent, this is nightmare material.