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What do you do if food goes down your windpipe chest and back pain comes and goes?
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∙ 15y ago
It is possible that there was irritation or damage to the bronchi or lungs, either from the foreign article or coughing that has caused irritation. If it improves after two or three days, ignore it. If not, see a doctor because there is a possibility that an infection has occurred.
The most likely cause is a muscle strain from coughing that should improve gradually over a period of two or three weeks.
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What keeps food from coming down a windpipe?
A small muscle in the back of your throat called the epiglotis.
The function of the respiratory system is?
It includes the windpipe, the lungs and the nose. The respiratory system lets us breathe in oxygen through the nose, going down through the windpipe to the lungs, and then after it has travelled all around our body, comes up the windpipe into our nose as carbon dioxide as we breathe out.
What are the functions of the human respiratory system?
It includes the windpipe, the lungs and the nose. The respiratory system lets us breathe in oxygen through the nose, going down through the windpipe to the lungs, and then after it has travelled all around our body, comes up the windpipe into our nose as carbon dioxide as we breathe out.
What is the function of the human respiratory system?
It includes the windpipe, the lungs and the nose. The respiratory system lets us breathe in oxygen through the nose, going down through the windpipe to the lungs, and then after it has travelled all around our body, comes up the windpipe into our nose as carbon dioxide as we breathe out.
What covers the windpipe while you are eating so that food does not go down the windpipe?
Epiglottis...
What is the different between windpipe and gullet?
The windpipe is the pipe in which air and gasses travel down (i.e oxygen) the gullet is the pipe which our food and drink travel down
What comes up but never comes back down?
Vomit
What comes up and never comes back down?
age
Your epiglottis folds down to block the entrance to your windpipe when you do what?
The epiglottis blocks the entrance to your windpipe when you swallow. This action prevents food from entering your trachea instead of your esophagus.
How is food prevented from going down the windpipe?
Food is prevented from going down the winpipe because the epiclottis.
Flap of tissue which prevents food the food from entering the windpipe when swallowing?
The epiglottis sort of hangs down in the back of the throat and it helps prevent food from entering the trachea when we eat.
This flap of tissue helps prevent food from going down your windpipe?
Epiglottis
