Table 2.

Strategies to prevent non-food choking.

Babies-Toddlers-Children	• Keep small items away from children: marbles, balloons, hard candies, pebbles, buttons, small coins • Check for labels on little toys and toy parts. • Keep away objects that smell like food: eraser, toys, large pills • Avoid foods with little toys or inedible items inside • Learn the Abdominal Thrust (also known as the Heimlich Maneuver, see Figure 1) for babies and toddlers
Adults and Elderly	• Supervise and remove small items from anybody with neurological, psychiatric or neuromuscular disorders • Ensure better stability of the dentures and better dental occlusion • Improve saliva production • Beware of hard candies, especially round ones • Learn to perform the Abdominal Thrust (also known as the Heimlich Maneuver, see Figure 1)