According to doctors at Thai Binh Children’s Hospital, this unit discovered and removed from the intestine of a 3-year-old boy a 10 cm long plastic stick.
Thai Binh Children’s Hospital said that the hospital received a 3-year-old boy patient (in Quang Lich commune, Kien Xuong district, Thai Binh province) in a state of abdominal pain, pain around the navel, lasting longer. 1 month now.
Pediatric patients are examined and hospitalized at the Department of Gastroenterology. After an abdominal ultrasound, the doctor discovered an image of the foreign object resembling a long plastic rod with a long, uniform tube-like structure completely located in the child’s intestine. Immediately after that, the doctor of the Department of Gastroenterology indicated urgent gastrointestinal endoscopy, grabbing foreign bodies. The foreign object that could be grasped was a plastic candy stick 10 cm long. Currently, the patient is stable and is being monitored at the Department of Gastroenterology.
A boy has colic for the whole month due to a 10 cm plastic rod stuck in the intestine. Photo: Thanh Nien
Through the above case, the doctors warned that the foreign body is a common dangerous accident in children, especially in children under 2 years old, because foreign objects falling into the airways narrow or completely block the airways. . Accidents usually happen when children eat, smile or eat improperly. In many cases, adults let children eat, play, suck or swallow small foods and objects.
Airway foreign body is an emergency condition, if not handled in time, it can lead to serious consequences such as irreversible brain damage or even death. Therefore, parents with young children need to pay special attention when their children play with objects or foods with high risk of choking, choking because children are easily neglected or swallowed, so there is a risk of choking, choking, choking. suffocate, even lose life if there is no timely emergency.
In addition, be very careful when feeding children or pay attention when children eat foods and fruits with small seeds such as na, corn, beans, peanuts, candy … these are foods. It is very easy for a child to choke and choke on food leading to foreign bodies entering the airways, obstructing the airways and the baby can die immediately before going to the hospital.
When a child has an abnormal airway, if the child is still pink, can cry, yell, speak, or not have difficulty breathing: should put in a sitting position to breathe, keep the baby, immediately take it to the nearest medical facility for approval. assist. Absolutely do not pick up your throat or use folk remedies. Improper manipulations can tear the esophagus, or accidentally push the foreign body deep into the airway leading to an obstruction, then the child is at a very high risk of death.
For children under 2 years old, if there is cyanosis, difficulty breathing, cannot cry or cry weakly, quickly call emergency and conduct first aid by: Place the baby on his or her stomach, head low on the left arm, hold the head. and the fore neck with the left hand. Use the heel of the right hand to pat 5 forcefully pat the child’s back between the shoulder blades.
Then turn the child back to the right hand, if breathing is difficult, cyanosis, use two fingers to press strongly in the area 1/2 below the sternum 5 times. If the foreign object still does not fall out, turn the young person over and continue patting the back. Take turns patting and chest compressions until the object falls out of the airway or the baby is crying.
In addition, Thai Binh Children’s Hospital recommends that, in addition to knowing the correct and timely first aid, patients should immediately go to medical examination and treatment facilities with endoscopic means for diagnosis. and quickly remove the foreign object properly.
An Duong (Th)
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