While eating, an older woman suddenly grabs her throat and cannot make any sound. you ask, "are you choking? " she nods yes. what should you do?

This older woman who finds it difficult to speak and breathe for sudden choking when she was eating, deserves immediate Heimlich Maneuver or Abdominal Compression.

If you are an adult with the subject standing, you should hug him by the back with both arms. In this position it is pressed with one hand closed and the other covering the first. The fist should be supported with the thumb on the abdomen and pressed towards the center of the stomach, just above the navel and under the ribs of the person. In the event that the asphyxiated person is alone, he must take a chair with a backrest, take it under the seat, place it below the ribs and push up hard, in order to expel the object.

If it is a child, it should lie on the little face up, on a rigid surface. Supporting the hands one on top of the other, between the sternum and the navel, it must be pushed several times in the direction of the thorax and then we will perform five chest compressions in the same area and same as the cardiac massage but stronger and somewhat slower, checking Effectiveness with each compression.