Why do we drink water after coughing if our windpipe controls our respiratory system and the water goes down our esophagus?
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Many people have just been conditioned from childhood (when we still have a harder time swallowing food or judging the amount of food we can safely swallow) by our parents/caregivers to drink water when we nearly choke on something, but it isn’t actually a useful response in the described situation. It is just a conditioned response.
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