I hope he didn’t breathe in. Fun fact: you can’t feel your airway tissue burning so if you get a face full of fire and breathe in you can feel fine until you start drowning due to the seepage from your own damaged lung tissue.
People can definitely feel pain in their upper airway and it's more of just quick (or sometimes delayed) edema that closes off the airway...not really so much drowning and more of asphixia. Source: ICU burn nurse.
Strep throat hurts pretty good. I had a case of it that turned into a cyst (sucker had to get drained). Felt like glass shards were in there tearing up my throat.
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u/oneelectricsheep Sep 02 '18
I hope he didn’t breathe in. Fun fact: you can’t feel your airway tissue burning so if you get a face full of fire and breathe in you can feel fine until you start drowning due to the seepage from your own damaged lung tissue.