A 60-year-old woman choked as she was eating jelly donut on Sunday 29 Kislev, and she was transported by Magen David Adom to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where she is listed in serious condition. She is on a respirator.
Paramedic Yarit Farkash explained when she arrived, the woman’s state of consciousness was “foggy” and she tried to get her to cough up the obstruction but her condition worsened and they had to intubate her and begin advanced resuscitation in addition to CPR.
In yet another case of choking, a 75-year-old woman from Pardes Chana was transported to Hillel Yafeh Hospital in Hadera, also listed in serious condition.
MDA adds that two weeks ago an 86-year-old male died as a result of choking on a jelly donut. The report adds he was in good health and apparently choked to death while eating the donut and watching a soccer game.
In yet another case involving a jelly donut, a 9-year-old girl from Rishon L’Tzion is listed in serious condition in Assaf HaRofeh Hospital as a result of an allergic reaction to a jelly donut.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
At first it appeared to be some type of Chanukah version of a Purim spiel but clearly these are real and serious health risks? What is so special about sufganeyot that they cause such choking and hamantaschen don’t….
Baruch Dayan Emes.
good thing bloombergs not the mayor there or he’d ban jelly donuts.
I don’t mean to make light of the situation but how do you choke on a jelly doughnut? Is it a coincident that it was always a JELLY doughnut ? Could it have been with custard or caramel ? Refuah shlaima
@1: I don’t think it is necessarily something special about jelly donuts. Sadly a lot of people choke and die, and these people who choked on jelly donuts did so on jelly donuts. I think this is only of relevance because it is currently Channuka, when a lot of people eat jelly donuts.
Gawd! Stick to potato latkes and smooth apple sauce to get down your throat. Wash it all down with a fine wine….
The danger of these donuts is their very innocuous texture.
They’re so soft and easily ingested that some people (kids in particular) tend to literally bite off more than they can chew. If one isn’t paying attention as one eats (like, while watching a really engaging soccer game), it’s not too hard to imagine accidentally inhaling a piece of the doughy material.
The elderly are far more likely to have weaker coughing reflexes, which puts them more at risk than other people.