9-year-old boys swallow magnets by mistake, and must be careful when they have this kind of toy at home

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Chen Hui

Correspondent Jian Wenyang Dai Xi'an

Recently, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University endoscopically helped a nine-year-old boy who swallowed a magnet by mistake to remove a magnet from his stomach. Doctors remind that magnet toys, especially toys such as magnetic beads, are "time bombs" in the eyes of surgeons, and should try to avoid contact with children, in case they find that children swallow foreign bodies, they should remain calm, do not listen to folk remedies to use 'eat leeks', 'drink vinegar' and other ways to deal with, should immediately go to the hospital for treatment.

The boy swallowed the magnet by mistake, and the family used soil methods such as swallowing leeks without success

"Mom, I swallowed the magnet in my stomach, what should I do?" On the last day of 2021, when 9-year-old Xiaoyi (pseudonym) was watching the New Year's Eve program with his family, he grabbed an olive-shaped magnet and played with it in his mouth when his parents did not pay attention. Seeing the enchantment, I accidentally swallowed the magnet. The original cross-Chinese New Year's Eve became a sleepless night for the family. Parents panic with mobile phone search processing methods. Even according to the online folk remedies, Xiao Yi ate a handful of leeks in an attempt to promote discharge. After eating, Xiao Yi's bloating discomfort worsened. The parents quickly sent Xiao Yi to the emergency department of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. After CT examination, it was found that the magnet had entered the stomach. The emergency department doctor immediately contacted the hospital's endoscopic surgery department to remove the magnet for the child through a gastroscope.

The endoscopic doctor skillfully pulled out a round and slippery magnet

After full preoperative preparation, Hu Jiancong, deputy director of the Department of Endoscopic Surgery, performed a sedative and analgesic gastroscopy on Xiaoyi. Under the gastroscope, a large amount of leek residue is left in the stomach cavity, but the magnet is not visible. "Generally speaking, the emptying time of the stomach is 4-6 hours" Therefore, Hu Jiancong believes that the magnet is still inside the stomach, but it is only covered by food debris. Through the gastroscopic foreign body forceps, the vegetable residue is completely removed in stages, and the magnet is finally exposed to the gastroscope.

Hu Jiancong tried to use foreign body clamps, traps and other conventional foreign body devices, and found that there was no way to clamp the magnet and take it out. Experienced, he immediately made a decision, immediately arranged to contact the operating room, borrowed the sterile specimen commonly used in the laparoscopy of the operating room to remove the bag, tied a silk thread to the bag, and then brought the specimen bag into the gastric cavity through the gastroscope, slowly pushed the magnet into the specimen bag like a "dumpling" through the foreign body forceps, and finally pulled the silk thread through the mouth and finally removed the magnet completely.

Gastroscopic operation

After removing the foreign body, Xiao Yi slowly woke up, and after half an hour of rest, he could drink water and eat normally, and he could go home with his parents to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Day.

Magnet toys are destructive, and parents who swallow foreign bodies should not dispose of them indiscriminately

Hu Jiancong introduced that swallowing magnet toys can cause very serious medical incidents in children, and at the beginning of last year, the hospital had received 2-year-old children who had perforation of the gastrointestinal tract caused by swallowing magnetic beads, and even needed to repair the perforated intestinal tube through surgery, and children should try to avoid contact with such toys.

Parents should remain calm after finding that children swallow foreign bodies, do not listen to home remedies to use 'eat leeks', 'drink vinegar' and other ways to deal with, should immediately go to the hospital for treatment. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)

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