may be dangerous.
Donuts (Photo: Dror Einav)
A 67-year-old man choked to death this morning (Wednesday) in Bnei Brak after eating a donut.
The MDA team that arrived at the scene performed CPR, at the end of which they had to pronounce him dead. This is the second case of death by suffocation from a donut in two days. This is after yesterday another person was seriously injured by suffocation. Magan David Adom reminds that the donut dough may be dangerous for babies, children, and the elderly and for people who suffer from swallowing problems. The donut should be cut into small pieces, and watch while eating.
MDA emergency medic Yoel Schechter said: "When we arrived at the scene, we saw the man lying unconscious while CPR was being performed on him. We saw a piece of donut near him and told us that he had suffocated during eating it. We continued the medical treatment and performed advanced and prolonged resuscitation operations, during which we removed pieces of donut dough from his throat with the help of medical equipment. Unfortunately, in the end we had to pronounce him dead."
Yesterday, a 61-year-old man suffocated after eating a donut at his home in Ofakim.
The MDA team that was called to the scene removed the pieces of dough from the man's throat with the help of medical equipment - while performing resuscitation operations. After they managed to restore his pulse, he was taken to the Soroka Hospital in a serious condition, sedated and ventilated. Minutes later, a 70-year-old man suffocated while eating a donut At his home in Netanya. The MDA team that was called to the scene gave him initial medical treatment and evacuated him to the Laniado hospital while performing CPR, as he is in a serious and unstable condition.
The medical staff at the hospital had to pronounce him dead.
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