If you breathe in a bug, and it gets to your lungs, how can your lungs “get rid of” the bug carcass? Is it just trapped in there? Can lungs “digest” things? (Assuming you’re not coughing it back out)

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If you breathe in a bug, and it gets to your lungs, how can your lungs “get rid of” the bug carcass? Is it just trapped in there? Can lungs “digest” things? (Assuming you’re not coughing it back out)

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As your airways split off they also get narrower. There is a point at which a fly, living or dead, will be physically too large to go any further. Unless it 100% blocks air from going past, it should be easy to mechanically remove it by coughing.

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