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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Your windpipe is extremely sensitive. Unlikely you could inhale a bug without coughing it up. When anesthesiologists put breathing tubes in patient’s tracheas, it requires significantly deeper sedation than making a large surgical incision does

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