Inhaling liquid soap

[Jokerhound]

I'm almost embarrassed to ask this.
I really am.


But earlier I was taking a bath, rubbing liquid soap on my arm. Shower gel. And I inhaled. I wasn't too close to the soap but I felt as if something hit the back of my throat when I breathed in. Like.. Touched. Could I have inhaled the soap? I didn't cough at all and I'm not having much trouble breathing. Though my anxiety is starting go set in, therefore laboring my breaths quite a bit because I'm scared of getting some sort of soap poisoning.

If I'd inhaled the soap, would I have immediately began coughing and sputtering like mad or?
Am I just being way too paranoid?

Thanks to anyone who replies.

[bertybotts]

Your body is designed to clean out yucky stuff. The soap is basic and would tickle your throat/make you cough pretty bad if you inhaled any quantity that could cause any level of damage. I would not worry at all. Your lungs can deal with it. Guess what? Sometimes I light very toxic things and stick them in my mouth and inhale the smoke. It is called a cigarette and it is terrible for lungs and I have not dropped dead from it, so don't worry about soap

[marc]

I have done the same thing and I started coughing and choking.

[Library girl]

I wouldn't worry about it at all.  When I was younger I accidentally got really harsh shampoo up my nose, and it hurt like hell, but nothing bad happened.  My fried works with a developmentally disabled man who once swallowd a handful of hand sanitizer--nothing bad happened to him either.  I promise you'll be fine!!!

[Jokerhound]

Thanks, all.

Your answers are much appreciated.

[Peaceplease]

Yep, you'll be fine. I've done the same thing a time or two. One time I was in the store trying to smell a shampoo and I squeezed it too hard and some went right up my nose and I was breathing deep because I was trying to smell it obviously, so it made me choke and left a horrible taste in my mouth. Except for the embarrasment of my husband witnessing the whole thing, I was fine.