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During dinner i seemed to swallow wrong, a little "seemed to go down the wrong way, " made me cough for about half a min. is aspiration a worry?

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Dr. Curtis Wong answered

Specializes in Plastic Surgery

Aspiration unlikely: If your protective cough reflex did what its designed to do. Coughing is what your body will do whenever anything goes down the wrong pipe.

Dr Pappas agreed

Answered 3/10/2018

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