Son just choked

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He's 17 months old. He was drawing with jumbo crayons and bit the end off one. Got lodged in his throat. Took me a good 30 seconds of hard slaps to his back to get it out. His back is bright red now. So shaken up. I am shaking. Anyone else ever experienced this? Just terrifying. The look of terror in his face was awful :(

I saw a child choke on a bit of sausage in a pub. Before I could jump up the man at the next table had whipped her out of the seat, got her upside down and it came out. I simply popped to the table with some wet wipes to help the parents clean her up. The whole family were in shock and made me realise how quickly it can happen, at any age.

Many years ago when I was around 3 or 4, a friend of my mother's gave me a boiled sweet. I choked on it, and my my mother, always useless in a crisis, just ran round in circles wailing. This was in a street in the middle of town. A passer-by picked me up by the ankles and held me upside down, shaking me vigorously. The sweet came up and out. After that she was paranoid about boiled sweets and was always warning people about them.

Yep. Had this with DS. He choked on a small piece of cardboard. I had to take him to A&E to get checked afterwards.

Oh god you poor thing. This happened to me when my 7 year old choked on a grape. We were so lucky, he’d crushed one edge of it before inhaling it and we could hear a tiny bit of air whistling through past the edge and I managed to dislodge it before the paramedics arrived but it was easily The most terrifying few minutes of my life. I had nightmares for ages.

I have agreed to cut his grapes in half until he’s 40. I’d only recently stopped, figuring 7 was well over the NHS guidelines. Still gives me shivers.

@endofthelinefinally I am so sorry for your loss x

endofthelinefinally so sorry for your loss

Thank you all.
Please encourage everyone you can to learn some first aid.
It is so important.

I've scarily had it happen 5 times to me with different children. Invert them upside down immediately , quite often the extra gravity can make the difference . So far just one or a few back slaps is all that's been needed. A pea, apple, meat, sweet and a bead!

Yes, when he was 3, he choked on a sweet, I was in the car with him. We pulled over, his lips were blue and his face was frozen, I was slapping his back and then had him by the ankles shaking him, it came out, but I will never forget my fear and his little face, 32 years later!

This happened with my DS last year, easily the worst 3 mins of my life, he choked on some cereal, after a couple of back slaps I realised it wasn't shifting, so I had to perform the Heimlich on him, after a couple of minute he was sick and a chunk of the cereal was amongst the sick, half way through my older son got my phone ready to ring 999, it was so scary and I couldn't stop shaking for ages after, me and my older son was so upset after it, we could stop hugging him and he went about his day as normal, I did take him to A&E after as that's why they advise if u have to give a small child the Heimlich as it can cause internal damage, my son was actually sliding on his belly as we were waiting to be seen so he was ok :) big hugs OP and well done for knowing what to do xx

This has happened to me also, OP.
Probably around a year ago now. DD will be three next month.
Her older sibling gave her a haribo type sweet, she choked. Went from red to blue to purple.
I immediately went bat shit crazy screaming and put a hooked finger down her throat.
DH screamed at me in a way I have never heard before, grabbed her off me and did the manoeuvre on her.
Whenever I think of it I love DH just that little bit more. He saved her life that day.
This all happened in the space of maybe 40 seconds but it sends shivers down me whenever I think of it.
Hope you are all OK. I was tearful for a good few days afterwards.