Current Events > Burned the hell out of my throat, don't know what to do

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So yesterday I ate an extremely hot chicken tender, and instead of spitting it out my stupid ass tried to swallow it. It was stuck in my throat for a good minute or two before it managed to go down. Definitely couldve choked and died.

So now my throat is burned and I feel like theres something down there stuck in my throat 24/7, which I assume is the burned part of my throat that is swollen. Its very difficult to swallow anything even a day later.

Researching on the internet is giving me very different and conflicting solutions, some suggest drinking only cold things and avoiding things that can irritate it like salt, while others say to eat/drink warm things like soup and the salt in the soup would help. I just dont know what to do at this point.

Dont have health insurance at the moment so going to the doctor is not an option (hooray USA)

Ice cream

Happened to me before. Your throat is a mucus membrane, it will heal extremely quick. Just tolerate it, eat cold soft things like yogurt. 2-3 days it will be ok.

Do you have what it takes to perform a tracheotomy on yourself if the swelling becomes too bad?

Have you tried not doing that?

Yoghurt, ibuprofen and paracetamol. You'll be right mate.

Did it feel like your were deepthroating the devil's hot dog?

Common sense to me says dont eat anything hot thats going to pass through a burn thats trying to heal.

Youll have to go on a soft food cold diet for a couple days. Ice cream, apple sauce, yogurt, honey, non toasted bread, pudding, cottage cheese, bananas, avocados, etc.

some people are actually allergic to popular spicy foods and over look it because its popular food

might want to look into that

had a friend who grew up eating spicy homecooked meals, but found out she was deadly allergic to eating certain types of jalapeno not local in her region, now she afraid to eat ANY jalapeno even the ones she grew up eating

So the consensus so far seems to be cold things mostly. I keep seeing other recommendations for remedies on the internet like gargling warm water with salt or eating salty soups. Which contradicts all the other suggestions.

It does seem like common sense would dictate to avoid hot/warm foods and irritating stuff like salt for a burn and to stick to the cold stuff, but something about a nice warm salty soup seems it could be soothing too.

Man this is tricky.

DavidZ2844 posted...

So the consensus so far seems to be cold things mostly. I keep seeing other recommendations for remedies on the internet like gargling warm water with salt or eating salty soups. Which contradicts all the other suggestions.

It does seem like common sense would dictate to avoid hot/warm foods and irritating stuff like salt for a burn and to stick to the cold stuff, but something about a nice warm salty soup seems it could be soothing too.

Man this is tricky.

Well the thing is, chewy foods are going to irritate your throat as they go down your gullet, which will exacerbate the swelling and make it take longer to heal. Chew at least 200 times!

TC, go drink cold milk, lots of it.

Heartomaton posted...

Did it feel like your were deepthroating the devil's hot dog?

Does the mods here know if I can have this as my signature?

So my parents told me to gargle warm water with salt, and I told them I cant because it isnt a CE approved method

Aloe juice, doesn't taste great but it's intended for burns and can help it heal

was the chicken good?

Deep throat a fudgical

TaylorHeinicke posted...

was the chicken good?

It was good, but not worth the burn at all. A place called Angry Chickz.

It was worse than Raising Canes and even had its own special sauce that emulated Canes sauce. Next time, Id rather just go to Raising Canes.

You good now?

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

You good now?

Still a bit of pain, but not as bad as before. Today was the first day I could finally eat solid food, but too much of it still irritates the burn and causes more pain to flood back in.

Big thanks to everyones suggestions in this topic, helped me out a lot. My favorite remedies were cold milk and especially ice cream, it felt heavenly going down my throat.

Im hoping for another day or two and Ill be back to normal, fingers crossed. Mustve been a real nasty burn if its lasted this long.