New Year's Day clogs Japanese cake with throat and transports to hospital 17 dead in Tokyo 1 person at 15:14 on January 4
On the 3rd of the New Year's Day from the New Year's Day to the 3rd, 17 elderly people were transported to a hospital in Tokyo with their rice cakes jammed in their throats, one of whom died. The Tokyo Fire Department is calling attention to cut rice cakes into small pieces.
According to a summary by the Tokyo Fire Department, 17 people, between the ages of 68 and 96, were transported to the hospital with Japanese rice cakes stuffed with mochi on their throats.
Among them, a man in his 80s was eating zoni at home in Adachi Ward on the 2nd, and was transported to a hospital with his mochi clogged in his throat, but died.
According to the firefighter, if the rice cake gets clogged in the throat, it is necessary to take measures such as surrounding people supporting the chest or chin, prone, and tapping between the shoulder blades of the back and exhaling That is.
The Tokyo Fire Department has been calling for precautions to avoid getting clogged in the throat by eating small pieces of rice cake and slowly swallowing it because there are many opportunities to continue eating rice cakes.