Lianhe Wanbao - 10 hrs 20 mins ago
Another person in Singapore is suspected to have choked to death on his own saliva.
This may be the second such case in a week where people choke to death on their own saliva.
The most recent deceased is a 30-year-old Malaysian working in Singapore as a computer technician.
According to his grieving girlfriend, the deceased had hurt his back on Sunday, 8 January, and had difficulty moving about, so she had offered to let him stay over at her home in Yishun.
The man was sleeping soundly when he appeared to choke on his own saliva.
He was heard coughing once and went quiet after.
At about 5am in the morning, the woman found that she could not wake her boyfriend, and panicking, asked her housemate for help.
The housemate also tried to wake the man, but later on found that he no longer had a pulse.
The man was sent to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital but could not be resuscitated.
Earlier on 3 January, a 29-year-old housewife was suspected to have died by choking on her own saliva during an afternoon nap.
Her husband had returned home in the evening to find her still sleeping.
But a closer look revealed that the woman's body had gone cold and she had been dead for at least seven to eight hours.
I wonder how that can happen. Too much fats around the throat? So once the person coughs, the flesh blocks the air passage. Just my layman conjecture. Got a friend who died at 30 in his sleep too.
could be due to cough up phlegms either by flu or smoking. I experienced that a few times nearly choking when I was a heavy smoker while sleeping.
Well, I have a friend who has this type of problem to, but he went to do an op.
Sometime he takes naps then will suddenly wake up becoz choke, cannot breathe...
I fear one day when we grow old like 80s, we become too weak to get up and may choke on our phlegm and saliva.
what if we become paralysed?
what if we get stroke unable to move?
80s? Then just go in peace la if that happens.
One cannot go in peace when one is choking and suffocating until face is blue, while too weak to get up and cough out phlegm.