https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=10&v=Op2TjTQs7X0
This could save your life if you’re ever choking on something and no one is there to help you.
Share this with those you love!
Thank you for the link! I wonder if it would also work if you put a pillow on your tummy to fall on.
I think you should have the pillow for your face. The tummy would benefit from hitting the ground to whoosh out the obstruction. If you put a pillow there, it might not have the same effect. I would want to protect my face tho. 
Hopefully we won’t ever need this, but I do recall choking on a piece of meat once and how helpless that felt. Fortunately, my mom figured it out, turned me upside down and gave me a sharp slap on my back to dislodge the food. Whew! It was scary & you can’t talk!
Yes, a pillow to protect one’s face might be best, but likely since time will be of the essence, stopping to get a pillow may not be possible.
@HImom thank goodness for your mom. I think my mom had to do that with one of her kids. I don’t know if the child couldn’t breathe, but I remember seeing her hold one upside down and a whack on the back.
You want serious force to the upper abdomen. The video doesn’t completely convey that this would be a desperate situation. Keep your head up and hit hard on your sub-sternum area.
I attended a funeral a few years ago for a youngish fellow who choked to death at a restaurant. He got up and left the table and no one realized he was in distress/danger. By the time they went to check on him in the restroom, it was too late. The point being that if you think you might be in “trouble”, tap someone on the shoulder to come with you.
These incidents are rare, but tragic. Some are avoidable.
I have to wonder if this technique has ever been used successfully. It’s hard for me to imagine anyone who is choking and unable to breathe having the presence of mind and calmness to get down on the floor and try it.
Yes, I do think someone who is choking could do this.
I was seriously choking on a pill while at an athletic club and totally aware that I WAS choking. Every woman there did not speak English and did not read my gestures (which still really bothers me) and I was looking for the phone to dial the ER # that was posted in the shower room.
Sometimes there is enough time to realize what is happening. I did but could not make myself understood, and then, perhaps, no one would have known what to do.
I managed a huge cough and the pill landed 5 feet away.
H is a doc and thought this was very good information.
The standard first aid I was taught was to use a chair or the edge of a counter and slam yourself onto that. This guy’s method seems like you have only one chance, where with a chair you might get two or three thrusts before you passed out.
So H and I just did a “practice” and both feel that this new idea is better. When I was at the club there was no counter or chair to slam on and, as I am 5’2, even the ones at home are not perfect size wize.
As H said, maybe your breast will be sore or your nose broken but you will be alive.
Also, you could do it more than once if need be.
I performed heimlick remover many times on my father and husband. I don’t think at those times they knew they were choking. I could sense something not right by the way and sound that they were having hard time with chewing/swallowing and just did something hard just in case and sure enough they were choking. Because after that heimlick remover they were back to normal. Nobody taught me the right way to do it, I just saw them on TV or movie and did the best I could. I don’t know if I would be thinking fast enough when it happens to me or not.
FYI… it’s called the Heimlich Maneuver
@DrGoogle
One of my biggest fears is choking and dying. Therefore I have always understood not to act like nothing is happening in a restaurant and if alone to do a chair manuver. I appreciate the newest idea!
I also know that the most likely is a child eating peanut butter and bread and an adult eating steak.
I contribute my anxiety to Mama Cass. Completely. >:P
Mom2, thanks, I knew it was something close, my brain often too sleepy at night.
So weird you posted this today. Yesterday I had a call from my 17 year old who was home alone (well, with the dog) and had choked on a tortilla chip - she could breath and all but could feel it stuck and was a little panicked. Well, I was panicked too not being there - no matter that I could get home fairly quickly!
I just sent this to her. The impact looks pretty hard I have to say!
wow thanks, gonna show wifey, I totally saved her life twice due to choking and I do worry about her alone