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What happens if you inhale a piece of food into your lungs?

Does the food dissolve? Can it grow moldy/ spoil in your lungs?
gpt
It's fairly rare that a piece of food would make it down in to your lungs, but it's certainly possible.  Given a solid piece of food in the lungs, a doctor can go in with a bronchoscope (a long tube that goes down your trachea and into your lungs) and remove it.  A complication that could arise is known as aspiration pneumonia, which is a type of pneumonia which generally occurs when some foreign object is introduced to the bronchial tree.  All of this is pretty rare in a healthy person, and usually there are other medical issues involved that impair the swallowing mechanism.