• Drusas@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    20 hours ago

    Sounds like a stricture–narrowing in the esophagus which can cause food to get stuck. Don’t know if you could choke to death from it since you can still breathe when it happens.

    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      11 hours ago

      I was attempting to paint a picture of a food lump barely small enough to pass into your throat, but not enough to make it into your stomach and imply that a very small increase in size or contour could stop it earlier. (ie. asphyxiation)

      Does that not track?