I Inhaled A Crisp

[mandimoo]

.... A few days ago. I have not stopped coughing since. My chest feels irritated still, all tickly, right between the boobs but inside! Do you think I have crisp stuck? Should I see gp or will it dissolve? Driving me insane!

[Sqad]

If there has been no change in your voice and your swallowing isn't affected and you feel well in yourself, then i would give it another couple of days to see which way the "cookie will crumble."

If it is stuck in the upper gullet.....no big deal.
If you have inhaled it and it is in the lung, then the salt in the crisp will cause a local reaction which will settle.

Another two days....to monitor the situation.

[ClaryS]

I saw a programme on TV where a guy inhaled a pea and it sprouted in his lung causing a cyst -it was a serious medical programme ( I think....)

[mandimoo]

Thanks squad, I had hoped you would see this.

[mandimoo]

Clarys.... Are you taking the pea?

[Old_Geezer]

No, but the guy did !

[ClaryS]

no mandimoo
he was eating raw peas from the garden and inhaled one:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2010/08/pea-sprout-removed-from-massachusetts-mans-lung/

[Prudie]

OMG, so it was true when we were told as kids not to swallow grape pips as a vine would grow inside you!

[ClaryS]

only if you snort them rather than eat them Prudie :-)

[boxtops]

ours was apple pips, prudie, my grandma was obsessed by not eating apple cores in case a tree grew in your stomach.

[davetuc]

I once read about a rather large lady who sat on an acorn, which secreted itself in her bum and it started to grow inside her. Maybe an urban myth?

[Connemmara]

me too Boxtops - never encouraged to eat any kind of pips - in case we grew them. those were the days LOL

[Prudie]

davetuc surely that was a joak?

[Sqad]

Dave

///Maybe an urban myth//

Don't you mean an urbum myth?

[Sparkles62]

Dave

Did she root it out, or did she just leaf it there?

[Prudie]

rooting it out would have been a helluva big job

[sandyRoe]

I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly... ;-)

[anneasquith]

if you went out with wet hair, you got DOUBLE pneumonia !

[cupotee]

Don't bath when a lady her period was the worst
"don't do" from the oldies.

Seriously a neighbour panicked when he inhaled a tissue. He thought he was going to die but excessive coughing cleared his throat.

[slaney]

You say "inhaled" so I presume you think it is in your chest.
Any wheezing or shortness of breath?
I would advise that you go and see your GP because of the coughing, as he or she may wish to listen to your chest, and /or ask for a Chest X-ray.

[mandimoo]

Yes, it feels like its in my chest. I've had a minimal wheeze which I presumed because I also have a light cold. No difficulties breathing.

Had a mad coughing fit a couple of hours ago, thought I was going to be sick, but do feel a little better this afternoon. Thought perhaps it had finally moved or dissolved.