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Can a spider get into your lung and how would you know if one was?

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Not an alive one.: One can aspirate anything from food to fluids, to bugs, but one usually coughs it out. If something stuck in airway, bronchoscopy is the procedure to see and remove.

Dr Fowler and another doctor agreed

Answered 2/17/2014

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