On January 28, in the general trauma surgery ward of the Children's Hospital affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, 1-year-old YangYang (pseudonym) was lying in his mother's arms, and the doctor was examining the abdominal wound. Yangyang's mother recalled her son's bloated stomach in the past three months, and still had palpitations.
Accidentally eating water for babies causes bloating like a drum
Yangyang's mother, who rushed to the hospital from Liangshan, Sichuan, recalled that 3 months ago, Yangyang's stomach was swollen, "the big belly was like it was going to explode", but people were getting thinner and thinner, and her spirit was not good, she took Yangyang to a number of hospitals for treatment and hospitalization, but did not find the reason, "These two days the child's condition is getting worse and worse, I can only listen to my friend's suggestion to try it at the Heavy Medicine Children's Hospital." ”
The child's abdomen is bloated like a drum
The child came to the Department of General Trauma Surgery of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University, and after the doctors examined and diagnosed, he suspected that there was a foreign body in the digestive tract. But Yang yang's mother was very confused: "We didn't give him anything special to eat, and we paid special attention to what he ate." ”
A toy bead removed from the child's body
On the 21st, the medical team performed surgery for Yangyang. During the operation, it was found that about 20 centimeters from the large intestine, an elliptical ball blocked the small intestine, which has caused complete obstruction of the intestine, and the proximal small intestine of the obstruction has been stretched from 2.5 cm in diameter to about 6 cm, "which is the cause of the child's stomach bloating." ”
Dr. Liu Guobin took the ball out of the small intestine and found that it was a transparent ball with a diameter of 3.5 cm, which was a kind of toy that children often played with - water baby. Yang Yang's mother suddenly realized, "This is his sister's toy, it may be that he accidentally ate it when his sister was playing." ”
Reporter experiment: 24 hours of expansion nearly 24 times
Water baby, is a common children's toy, also known as water absorbing beads or crystal mud. Most of these toys are spherical in shape and can swell in contact with water.
Upstream news reporters searched on the Internet and found that the price of water babies is cheap, and dozens of them can be bought for a few dollars. The reporter spent 9.9 yuan to buy 20 large water babies. The toy packaging comes with a reminder: not edible, children under 4 years of age can not play.
The 24-hour water baby becomes nearly 24 times larger
The reporter put a water baby into the water, and after 24 hours, the diameter of the water baby increased from 1.2 cm to 3.5 cm, and the volume increased from 0.9 cubic centimeters to 22.44 cubic centimeters, an increase of 23.9 times. The blistered water baby is very elastic, and the reporter squeezed hard and did not squeeze it.
A variety of toys into the stomach Parents must be careful
On the same day of the Yangyang surgery, the Department of General Trauma Surgery of the Children's Hospital affiliated to Chongqing Medical University also performed another laparotomy, removing 12 small magnetic beads from the intestines of a two-year-old boy, which caused multiple intestinal perforations, which are also common children's toys. Dr. Liu Guobin introduced that in 2021, the Chongqing Children's Hospital received more than 70 cases of hospitalized patients with foreign bodies in the digestive tract, many of which were caused by inadequate parental supervision or low vigilance and accidental ingestion by children.
"Like water babies, magnetic beads, button batteries, small magnets, small jewelry, date cores, smaller pushpins, nails, granular plastic toys, etc., parents should pay attention not to let their children eat it." Dr. Liu Guobin reminded: The Spring Festival is coming, family reunions, children will also receive a variety of toys, parents must be careful to take care of, children should accompany them when playing, do not give them too small toys. If the child has unexplained vomiting, bloating, abdominal pain, and stop defecation, it is necessary to be alert to the possibility of foreign bodies in the digestive tract, "parents should take the child to the hospital as soon as possible for treatment, and carry out corresponding examination and treatment." ”
Upstream journalist Shi Heng