Digestive System: Don't Choke On This
Clip: Special | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
How do you prevent choking?
There are two tubes that start in the back of your throat: the esophagus and the trachea. Food goes to the stomach and air goes to the lungs. But if food or drink slips down the wrong tube, you can choke. How does the body try to prevent this?
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Digestive System: Don't Choke On This
Clip: Special | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
There are two tubes that start in the back of your throat: the esophagus and the trachea. Food goes to the stomach and air goes to the lungs. But if food or drink slips down the wrong tube, you can choke. How does the body try to prevent this?
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Science Trek is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and the Idaho National Laboratory. Additional Funding by Sparklight, the Friends of Idaho Public Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.