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ELI5: What causes the prolonged choking feeling when I swallow a tiny amount of something the wrong way.

I mean, its in the same place it would be if I swallowed it normally. So why does it feel so different.
gpt
After your swallow things, there are two tubes they can  go down. One is your esophogus. This is the good one,  and it leads to your tummy. The other is your trachea (tray-kee-ya), also called a "windpipe". This tube  leads  to your lungs. If food or water goes down the windpipe, you'll cough and/or choke.  


When you make the effort to swallow, there's a little flap that comes down and usually covers the windpipe so things will go to your tummy and not your lungs, but it's not always perfect.  The flap is  called the epiglotis (ep-eh-glot-ess).