ilovebigbirds
15-08-23, 11:13
Omg. I am really scared right now.
I was eating cookies and drinking lemonade with mint earlier and during the meal I inhaled a little and felt a sharp pain in my chest. I started panicking. The pain subsided but now I am scared that I actually aspirated on my meal without choking and now will get aspiration pneumonia... Some say that aspiration pneumonia is only seen in the frail elderly but idk. Also normal body response is to cough violently before you even understand that you have aspirated, but what if the piece I inhaled was so small that it didn't trigger coughing just the pain??
I was eating cookies and drinking lemonade with mint earlier and during the meal I inhaled a little and felt a sharp pain in my chest. I started panicking. The pain subsided but now I am scared that I actually aspirated on my meal without choking and now will get aspiration pneumonia... Some say that aspiration pneumonia is only seen in the frail elderly but idk. Also normal body response is to cough violently before you even understand that you have aspirated, but what if the piece I inhaled was so small that it didn't trigger coughing just the pain??