If you get a fishbone stuck in the throat, is it proper to swallow stuff or  drink vinegar to remove it? Sticking fishbone in the throat often happens. Many  people choose to swallow the bone with steamed buns, rice, etc. However, this  "folk method" is likely to get the fishbone stuck in a deeper place or even  pierce the esophagus. Drinking vinegar will not make the fish bones soft. It may  worsen the esophagus edema and make you feel more uncomfortable. Here are some  proper ways to deal with it. If the fishbone is very small, you might eat some  vegetables, steamed buns or rice and swallow it. For relatively large fishbone,  you can gently grasp it with tweezers if the stick is relatively light. If the  stick is deep, it is not easy to find, the person feels very uncomfortable or  even unable to speak, the patient should go to the hospital as soon as possible.  If you are choked, is drinking water a proper way to solve the problem? Many  people think that drinking water is necessary when choking, but this is not true  at all times. The choking of smaller foods in the esophagus when swallowed can  be relieved by drinking water, but larger foods choked at the throat area could  not be removed by drinking water. On the contrary, it may become worse after  drinking water. Drinking water also causes severe coughing and even suffocation.  If the rescue is not in time, the patient might die or get respiratory  pneumonia. The correct method for choking is the Heimlich emergency method,  which is the abdominal impact method. The rescuer should stand behind the  patient, hold the patient’s waist, and continuously and rapidly impacted the  abdomen from downward to diagonally upward at two-finger distance above the  belly button, with the left hand holding the right fist a fist, so that foreign  objects could be expelled by the impact of the airflow.