The patient's family told the doctors of Hung Thinh General Hospital that the child was at home playing with her grandmother and playfully swallowed a metal coin about 1 cm in diameter.
The X-ray results of the hospital showed that there was a foreign object under the ophthalmic sphincter, a coin about 1 cm in size.
X-ray image of the coin stuck in the neck of a 4-year-old patient in Lao Cai (Photo: Hung Thinh General Hospital provided).
Therefore, the doctors of the Department of Functional Exploration (Hung Thinh General Hospital) quickly performed anesthesia and picked up the esophageal foreign body through the endoscope with crocodile pliers.
Currently, the health of the 4-year-old patient who choked on a metal coin is recovering stably.
Hung Thinh General Hospital has recommended that foreign bodies in the airways and gastrointestinal tract are very dangerous and should be treated promptly.
Round foreign bodies can cause esophagitis, esophageal perforation, and mediastinitis. If drifting into the stomach - duodenum will lead to small bowel obstruction, requiring surgery to resolve.
Sharp foreign bodies can also cause perforation of the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
In order to prevent unfortunate accidents for children, medical experts have recommended that parents should pay attention when taking care of children, not doing other things but must regularly supervise and keep children in sight.
Objects such as nails, screws, coins, batteries, needles, toothpicks, etc. or chemicals that may be dangerous to children such as kerosene, gasoline, laundry detergent, even boiling water, must be kept far away and kept high. must be out of reach of children to ensure safety.
Check your child's toys often to make sure the battery slots are locked in and secure.
When detecting that a child has a foreign object in his mouth (not yet swallowed), parents need to calm down and gently coax the child so that the child can pull the object out by himself, absolutely do not put your hand in the child's mouth to pick up the foreign object or make the child panic. panic because doing so will cause the child to lose control, leading to swallowing the foreign object.
In case the child has swallowed a foreign object or has abnormal symptoms such as vomiting, swallowing pain, difficulty swallowing, abdominal pain, etc., parents need to take the child to the nearest specialized pediatric medical facility for monitoring and treatment. timely treatment.
