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[quote=Anonymous]My 5 year old choked on a chip at school a week ago. It went down on its own but she was scared enough that she was in tears and told the teacher. She never cries at school.

She ate dinner normally that night but the next day wouldn’t swallow her food after chewing. She would only swallow food if she sipped water to wash it down. She has been able to eat ice cream and popsicles normally, and drinking anything has been fine.

It’s been a week of this and she’s at the point where she’s upset about it, avoiding foods she thinks will be hard for her to swallow and taking a sip of water after chewing each bite. But I have seen her swallow solids without water when she was distracted - she ate a whole cookie when we were out shopping, swallowed some bites of pizza, etc. If she’s thinking about it, which is pretty much all meals and snacks, then it’s like she’s forgotten how to get the food to go down.

I know the chip might have caused an abrasion and she could have had some pain initially that caused her to be afraid to swallow, but it’s been a week and at this point it seems like it’s mostly habit/behavioral since I’ve seen her swallow normally on several occasions.

Anyone else ever had anything like this? What helped?[/quote]

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