Episode 306: Ped Feeding 101 #podcast #feedingtherapy #feeding #peds #speechtherapy

And the big difference between gagging and choking, just to clarify here, I always like to clarify this in my free training, and I did last week. But gagging is when you're, you know, we're trying to protect our airway, and so the body starts to try and push the food out because it fears that that food or that liquid is going to go. Is going to enter the airway. It's going to go into our trachea instead of our esophagus. And so we start to gag. It's almost like sometimes people will say, oh, my gosh, don't you know they're going to throw up? Well, it's a way. We're trying to expel that food. Right. We're trying to protect the airway. We can still breathe, we can still make noise. However, the difference. That's a big difference between gagging versus choking, where with choking, the airway becomes blocked. It is now obstructed. We cannot make any noises. The skin color will tend to change. You might become more bluish or purplish because of the depleted oxygen. Oxygen, right. And so we cannot breathe, and that is true choking.