@marcostephen 18 June 2020 edited

You can't breathe and swallow simultaneously.

"This is because the food and fluids we swallow and the air we breathe in both travel down the same part of our throat," according to registered psychiatric nurse **James Steinmetz**. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-breathe-and-swallow-at-the-same-time "This is because the food and fluids we swallow and the air we breathe in both travel down the same part of our throat," according to registered psychiatric nurse **James Steinmetz**. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-breathe-and-swallow-at-the-same-time "This is because the food and fluids we swallow and the air we breathe in both travel down the same part of our throat," according to registered psychiatric nurse **James Steinmetz**. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-breathe-and-swallow-at-the-same-time "This is because the food and fluids we swallow and the air we breathe in both travel down the same part of our throat," according to registered psychiatric nurse **James Steinmetz**. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-breathe-and-swallow-at-the-same-time