On New Year's Day 3 from New Year's Day to the 3rd, 14 elderly people were taken to the hospital with rice cakes stuck in their throats in Tokyo, and 3 of them died.
The Tokyo Fire Department is calling for caution to cut mochi into small pieces and eat them.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, a total of 14 men and women between the ages of 70 and 93 were taken to the hospital on New Year's Day in Tokyo with rice cakes stuck in their throats.
Of these, three died, including a 90-year-old man in Nishitokyo who was eating rice cakes baked at home.
The Tokyo Fire Department continues to have many opportunities to eat mochi, so especially elderly people are cautioned to cut it into small pieces and make them easy to eat, and then slowly chew them before swallowing.
Also, if the rice cake is clogged in the throat, I would like people around me to support the chest or chin and lie down, and tap between the shoulder blades on the back to push out the rice cake. ..