Eli5. What do you do when choking on saliva?

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Coughing becomes a bit hard and so is breathing.

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The saliva has activated nerves in your throat recognizing that something shouldn’t be there and needs to be removed as your lungs only want gas. Little hairs (cilia) work that saliva back up, and coughing is used to help forcefully push it back up as well. Your throat constricts to prevent more inhalation of foreign material and simply as a result of foreign material being present where it shouldn’t be.

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