What's up guys? Today we're going to talk about esophageal food

boluses, also known as impactions. We're going to talk about how these

patients will present what risk factors to look out for, the most common

causes, treatment, and how do we manage these patients.

Asophageal food boluses, also known as impactions,

can be defined when food gets stuck in the esophagus

causing obstruction, which can either be partial or complete,

whereas an esophageo form body ingestion can be defined by any object originating

outside the human body that's ingested. Accidental esophageal form body and large

body ingestions primarily occur in children are mentally impaired adults.

The most common foreign body ingestions in children are coins such as pennies, nickels, or quarters,

and other common ingestions in children include button batteries, sharp objects such as

needles, straighten paper clips, and fish bones, food impactions such as meat, but these are

really actually going to be rare in children.

Magnets, commonly found in toys and

long objects such as toothbrushes, spoons, or batteries, super-absorbing polymers, objects

containing lead such as fishing sinkers, BB gun pellets, and even some toys.

However, esophagy of foreign body impactions once again more commonly occur in adults.

The most common foods causing impaction include meat, fish, and chicken bones, but what causes these obstructions?

Briefly, let's talk about some anatomy of thisophagus because foreign body impactions

typically occur at sites of physiologic or pathologic narrowing. The esophagus has three areas of physiologic or pathologic narrowing.

The esophagus has three areas of physiologic narrowing, the upper esophageal sphincter,

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