What should you do if you are alone and choking?

Answer 1

throw yourself against a chair (or something similar), catching yourself in the area just below the sternum between your ribcage. Forcing the air up and removing your blockage.

Answer 2

If you call 911, they will send a unit to your house even if they don't hear you speak on the phone.
If you can still breathe somewhat OK and are coughing, the best thing to do would be to try to cough it out.
If you are not breathing well, and can't cough, you can try do to the Heimlich maneuver on yourself. Press your abdomen into a chair back or kitchen table in the same sharp upward motion that you would do to perform the maneuver on someone else. If you research the Heimlich, you can find diagrams that show where you should press. If done right, you should be able to force the obstruction out.
Be sure to get checked out by a doctor even if you successfully remove the obstruction. Sometimes there can be damage to the trachea.
Hope this helps!

Answer 3

If you have a little air left in your lungs, then try coughing the foreign object out of your airway- but do not inhale any more air (you may just end up lodging the object further down your air passage). You can also perform the heimlich on yourself. Quickly find a chair and rest your hands on the top of the back of the chair and force your ribs onto your hands. Consult a cpr tutorial to see pictures.

Answer 4

Hi! This is a great question. I am not sure of the "correct" answer, but this is what I would do.

I would try to remain calm and cough it out. If that did not work, I would diall 911 and leave the phone off the hook. That should bring the police. Then I would run to a neighbors house.

If that is not feasible, I believe you are supposed to forcefully push your upper stomach (diaphragm) into something hard, like a table edge (not the corner, the flat side).

Can't wait to read the responses...
:)

T.

Answer 5

Choking: First aid
Choking occurs when a foreign object becomes lodged in the throat or windpipe, blocking the flow of air. In adults, a piece of food often is the culprit. Young children often swallow small objects. Because choking cuts off oxygen to the brain, administer first aid as quickly as possible.

The universal sign for choking is hands clutched to the throat. If the person doesn't give the signal, look for these indications:

Inability to talk
Difficulty breathing or noisy breathing
Inability to cough forcefully
Skin, lips and nails turning blue or dusky
Loss of consciousness
If choking is occurring, begin to perform the Heimlich maneuver. If you're the only rescuer, perform the Heimlich maneuver before calling 911 (or your local emergency number) for help.

If another person is available, have that person call for help while you perform the Heimlich maneuver.

To perform the Heimlich maneuver on someone else:

Stand behind the person. Wrap your arms around the waist. Tip the person forward slightly.
Make a fist with one hand. Position it slightly above the person's navel.
Grasp the fist with the other hand. Press hard into the abdomen with a quick, upward thrust — as if trying to lift the person up.
Repeat until the blockage is dislodged.
To perform the Heimlich maneuver on yourself:

Place a fist slightly above your navel.
Grasp your fist with the other hand and bend over a hard surface — a countertop or chair will do.
Shove your fist inward and upward.
Clearing the airway of a pregnant woman or obese person:

Position your hands a little bit higher than with a normal Heimlich maneuver, at the base of the breastbone, just above the joining of the lowest ribs.
Proceed as with the Heimlich maneuver, pressing hard into the chest, with a quick thrust.
Repeat until the food or other blockage is dislodged or the person becomes unconscious.
Clearing the airway of an unconscious person:

Lower the person on his or her back onto the floor.
Clear the airway. If there is a visible blockage at the back of the throat or high in the throat, reach a finger into the mouth and sweep out the cause of the blockage. Be careful not to push the food or object deeper into the airway, which can happen easily in young children.
If the object remains lodged and the person doesn't respond after you take the above measures, begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The chest compressions used in CPR may dislodge the object. Remember to recheck the mouth periodically.
Clearing the airway of a choking infant younger than age 1:

Assume a seated position and hold the infant facedown on your forearm, which is resting on your thigh.
Thump the infant gently but firmly five times on the middle of the back using the heel of your hand. The combination of gravity and the back blows should release the blocking object.
If this doesn't work, hold the infant faceup on your forearm with the head lower than the trunk. Using two fingers placed at the center of the infant's breastbone, give five quick chest compressions.
If breathing doesn't resume, repeat the back blows and chest thrusts. Call for emergency medical help.
If one of these techniques opens the airway but the infant doesn't resume breathing, begin infant CPR.
If the child is older than age 1, give abdominal thrusts only.

To prepare yourself for these situations, learn the Heimlich maneuver and CPR in a certified first-aid training course.


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Answer 6

Call 911 even if you can't talk. More than likely they will send police first, but thats OK, because all police are CPR certified. If you know the heimlich manuver (officialy abdominal thrusts) then you apply force to your abdomon at the same angle and force as you would preform it on someone else. Use the back of a chair instead of hands.

Answer 7

Dial 911 or try to stop yourself from choking this has happened 2 me on several occasions.Good Luck

Answer 8

throw your upper bbody just under the sternum onto the back of a chair in an upward motion each thrust should be a seperate attempt to dislodge the object

Answer 9

slam yourself into a corner of a table and hope the thing you are choking on dislodges

Answer 10

You go to a counter,or a table,or anything that you can lean your stomach onto.Then you hit your stomach against the surface as hard as you can!