In early January, Liuzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital performed esophageal mirror examination and esophageal foreign body removal for a 5-year-old child with a foreign body in the esophagus. During the operation, the doctor removes a pig bone about 3 cm long from the child's esophagus. Doctors remind children to seek medical attention in time after swallowing foreign bodies.
Hao Hao is a guest from Xiangzhou. When eating at home during the New Year's Day holiday, Hao Hao felt a sense of obstruction in his throat after drinking a mouthful of bone porridge, and he also had coughing and vomiting symptoms, and he did not get better for a long time. Parents guessed that something was stuck in their child's throat, and they didn't dare to deal with it, so they rushed to the local hospital.
The doctors of the local hospital have found that the location of the foreign body is special, and the difficulty and risk of taking the foreign body are high, and it is recommended that parents take Hao Hao to the hospital for treatment.
Hao Hao's family rushed to the Liuzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital. After carefully questioning the child's medical history, the receiving doctor suspected that he was a foreign body in the esophagus, so he arranged for a chest CT scan and three-dimensional reconstruction examination. The examination results suggested that Hao Hao's esophagus had an irregular lumpy foreign body and that the esophagus may have been damaged.
The next day, Hao Hao underwent surgery under general anesthesia. The doctor starts a gastroscopy. The gastroscope enters Haohao's mouth about 18 cm and sees an irregularly shaped foreign body deep in the esophageal tissue. Under the guidance of a gastroscope, the doctor gently uses foreign body forceps to gently free the tissues around the foreign body.
Considering that the foreign body has no focus point and the grip of the foreign body forceps is too small, the doctor uses the esophagus mirror to look directly at the foreign body on the basis of the complete exposure of the foreign body and removes it completely. After taking it out, the doctor saw that the foreign body stuck in Haohao's esophagus was a pig bone about 3 cm long.
"In the past, most of the foreign bodies we took were slender fish bones, or small chicken bones. Such a large pig bone was the first time I had seen it. According to the surgeon, due to the large bone size of the pig, Hao hao's esophageal wall has been damaged, and he still needs to be hospitalized for observation after surgery.
The reporter learned that esophageal foreign bodies and airway foreign bodies are two common types of childhood pharyngeal foreign body diseases. After a foreign body enters the esophagus, the child will experience symptoms such as pain or discomfort in severe cases. At this time, parents should maintain calm and do not deal with it themselves, so as not to bring the foreign body to a deeper position, resulting in the child's esophagus being scratched. It is recommended that parents reassure their children, do not let them cry, and take their children to the hospital in time.
Doctors remind that if the child does not appear to be in pain or discomfort, nor is there a lack of breathing, parents should not take it lightly and should pay close attention to the child. In particular, if your child has symptoms such as dysphagia, painful swallowing, vomiting after eating, and difficulty breathing, remember to seek medical attention.