After drinking water in a stream near the 33-year-old man’s house, he developed a cough, spitting blood and difficulty breathing.
According to information from Tuyen Quang Provincial General Hospital, doctors of the hospital’s Department of Ear, Nose and Throat have just performed an endotracheal-laryngoscopy and successfully removed an octopus (leeches) longer than 8cm in below the larynx-trachea of DVS patients (SN 1988, residing in Yen Lam, Ham Yen, Tuyen Quang).
About a month earlier, while working in the field, Mr. S. washed his face and drank from the stream near his house. After a while, he found that he was coughing, spitting blood and having difficulty breathing, so he went to Ham Yen hospital for medical examination, then he was transferred to the General Hospital of Tuyen Quang province.
As the person directly endoscopically picking up the leeches for the patient, MSc.BS. Vu Dang Khoa, Head of Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, said that Mr. S. was under general anesthesia, then performed a tracheostomy, anesthesia for resuscitation. When the laparoscopy revealed that the larynx showed a foreign body under the hypopharynx, the upper part of the trachea, the doctors carried out the removal of the foreign body as a stream leech.
According to Dr. Khoa, leeches are living things that can move from the nose, mouth to the larynx – the patient’s trachea becomes a foreign object. Leeches live in the airways of the patient for a long time, can move up the larynx or down the bronchial gas, causing symptoms of coughing attacks, hoarseness, spitting up blood, difficulty breathing. At the location where the animal sucks, causing prolonged bleeding, difficult blood clotting is life-threatening.
Although it has been warned much, but leeches and parasitic squeezing still occur continuously. The reason is due to the habit of using water in streams and streams when going to the forest.
Scary is when the leeches, the new squeezed into the body through the water into the nose, throat, the small size, but after they suck blood and grow very quickly in a short time.
Symptoms of bleeding are detected in the form of hemoptysis, vomiting of blood, hematuria. The blood-absorbing leeches have symptoms such as increased pressure, discomfort, pain, nerve stimulation originating from the parasitic location, dysfunction of parasitic leeches, superinfection of bacteria causing inflammation in the area. leeches absorb blood, causing an abscess under the mucosa.
If the bleeding persists, the patient will experience anemia. If not examined and handled in time, leeches are getting bigger and bigger, causing obstruction of the trachea, respiratory failure … for a long time, it can lead to death.
According to experts, when leeches penetrate the natural cavities of the body, you should rinse your mouth with high concentration of salt water or inhale substances that have a spicy, pungent odor.
If the leeches are in a shallow area, the doctor may use a scope to remove them; If sticking deeply, it is necessary to anesthetize and use specialized equipment; If it is too deep, they must be operated on to remove leeches. If the leech enters the genital tract, soaking or injecting it with concentrated salt water can also cause the leech to die, or the leech to come out on its own.
Minh Hoa (th)
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