{"id":763386,"date":"2026-09-08T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763386\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:00:10","slug":"ayurvedic-tablet-removed-from-70-year-olds-food-pipe-rajkot-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/763386\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayurvedic tablet removed from 70-year-old\u2019s food pipe | Rajkot News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/whatsapp-image-2026-09-07-at-134035jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Ayurvedic tablet removed from 70-year-old\u2019s food pipe\" title=\"A 1.5-cm hard Ayurvedic tablet lodged in the food pipe of a 70-year-old woman was removed\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>A 1.5-cm hard Ayurvedic tablet lodged in the food pipe of a 70-year-old woman was removed Rajkot: A 1.5-cm hard ayurvedic tablet lodged in the food pipe of a 70-year-old woman was removed intact through an emergency endoscopic procedure by ENT surgeon Dr Himanshu Thakkar in Rajkot during the Janmashtami holidays.The woman, Devika Vyas, was taking the tablet for knee and joint pain when it got stuck in the upper portion of her oesophagus. The tablet was extremely hard and could not be broken.Vyas was unable to swallow even water for several hours and developed severe throat pain.We suspected an obstruction in the upper oesophagus near the cricopharynx and performed an emergency endoscopic procedure under general anesthesia. Using an esophagoscope and specialized forceps, we carefully grasped the tablet and removed it in a single piece,\u201c said Dr Thakkar.The woman experienced immediate relief and was able to swallow water and food normally. She was kept under observation for around two hours before being discharged.The examination also revealed narrowing, or stricture, in the upper part of her oesophagus. according to the doctor such narrowing can cause tablets or pieces of food to get lodged in the food pipe.\u201cElderly people, particularly those with missing teeth, few teeth or difficulty chewing, can be vulnerable to such incidents,\u201c Dr Thakkar added.According to him a swallowed object can sometimes enter the airway instead of the food pipe and cause serious breathing obstruction.\u201cRecurrent difficulty in swallowing tablets or food should not be ignored. If a person feels food is repeatedly getting stuck or is unable to swallow even water, timely medical evaluation is essential,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1.5-cm hard Ayurvedic tablet lodged in the food pipe of a 70-year-old woman was removed Rajkot: A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[252190,252179,252191,252178,252170,252189,252171,252183,252188,252173,252174,252172,252184,252175,252176,252177,252181,252186,252180,102,252187,252192,6591,252169,252182,156174,56,54,55,252185],"class_list":["post-763386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-airway-obstruction","tag-ayurvedic-tablet","tag-breathing-obstruction","tag-cricopharynx","tag-devikaben-vyas","tag-difficulty-swallowing","tag-dr-himanshu-thakkar","tag-dysphagia","tag-elderly-patient","tag-emergency-endoscopic-procedure","tag-endoscopy","tag-ent-surgeon","tag-esophageal-stricture","tag-esophagoscope","tag-esophagus","tag-food-pipe-obstruction","tag-foreign-body-removal","tag-general-anesthesia","tag-hard-tablet-stuck-in-throat","tag-health","tag-janmashtami-holidays","tag-knee-and-joint-pain-medication","tag-medication","tag-rajkot","tag-swallowed-tablet","tag-throat-pain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upper-esophagus-narrowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}