Hello for the docs there, I am a 24 y.o. female. I have this problem and its probably going on for a couple of days. It has something to with my throat. I feel like something is stuck in there and I've tried to snuff it out but failed to do so. Instead the lump just went farther my throat and it feels like it's gonna go down my air passage when in fact I can normally breath...it's just my feeling. After a couple of days, it started to itch just a tiny bit of itch but negligible... I tried coughing it out, drinking lots of water but nothing happened. It started I think when I was eating fried chicken and I was eating too fast and I probably swallowed the white hard thing...not the bones but probably you would call that the cartilage and after that I started feeling that's something is stuck on my throat. My question is if it's really food that is causing that lump, will it just rot and disintegrate on its own... I mean it's cartilage...not some bits of popcorn or anything. One friend told me to eat some chunks of banana and swallow it without chewing it... and maybe chances are that the stuck food will probably be removed. Pls help him.