Emergency scan of girl who swallowed pills with the shell still intact

At noon on May 8, Dr. Phan Tuan Trong, Emergency Department of Tam Anh General Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, said that he had just treated a girl named NTH (28 years old, living in Tan Binh district, Ho Chi Minh City) who mistakenly took medicine with the shell.

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Pill removed from girl's esophagus

Thirty minutes before being admitted to the hospital, Ms. H. took a fever-reducing medicine and felt something stuck in her throat. At first, she thought it was because the pill was too big, but a few minutes later, she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She did not dare to move too much, did not dare to swallow her saliva, and signaled for help, asking her relatives to take her to the hospital.

At the Emergency Department of Tam Anh General Hospital, Ms. H. was extremely worried, did not dare to speak, only knew how to point to her chest and show signs of pain. During her shift, suspecting that the patient had swallowed a foreign object, Dr. Trong ordered an emergency endoscopy and the result was that the medicine shell was stuck and scratching the esophagus.

The foreign object removed was nearly 2cm long, square, with an intact pill inside, hard, with 3 sharp edges and 1 dome edge. At this time, Ms. H. was able to talk because she had a fever and was tired, so she took a lot of medicine and accidentally did not know that she had an unopened pill in her hand.

NGUYEN THANH

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