Half an hour in a row encountered two babies eating snacks were choked, reminded: the winter vacation is still continuing, protection should not stop

During the Spring Festival, the emergency department of Wuhan Children's Hospital received many small children. Photo by Wang Chunlan, reporter of the Yangtze River Daily

Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client February 6 news (reporter Wang Chunlan correspondent Gao Chenchen) How urgent is the emergency department for children during the Spring Festival? On the 6th, Wuhan Children's Hospital released a summary of emergency treatment during the Spring Festival: from Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the first year, about 300 children were treated every day, including respiratory infections, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other digestive tract diseases, various acute traumas such as falls, sprains, high-altitude fall injuries, foreign bodies in the trachea, foreign bodies in the digestive tract, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Among them, on the afternoon of the second day of the Chinese New Year on February 2 alone, the emergency department treated two children who were choked on snacks in half an hour. Experts remind that children are still in the holidays, pay attention to the care of small babies, and strengthen safety education for school-age children.

Eating snacks, the two babies were choked one after another

Just after 2 p.m. on the 2nd, 1-year-old boy Niu Niu (pseudonym) was carried by his parents to Wuhan Children's Hospital for emergency treatment. In the morning, relatives helped with the children and fed the cows raisins to eat, but the cows were choked, coughed for half a day, and their little faces were red. The mother let the cow lie on the leg and patted him on the back, and the cow spat out some raisin residue. Subsequently, he went to the hospital near his home to take a film, and the results showed that there was still a foreign body in the child's main bronchi, and the family rushed to the children's hospital.

Just 20 minutes later, Hui Hui (pseudonym), a 1-year-old and 3-month-old girl, was also taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. At about 7 p.m. the night before, Hui Hui was choked on peanuts and turned purple at the time. The parents rushed to rescue her Heimlich, and the child coughed up peanut kernels. But on the morning of the 2nd, Hui Hui suddenly had shortness of breath and wheezing, and had to rush to the hospital for examination. The results showed that Hui Hui also had foreign bodies in the trachea.

After nucleic acid checks, blood tests, and electrocardiograms, at about 7 p.m. that night, the two babies were sent to the operating room with their front and back feet, and the otolaryngologist took out the snacks they had choked from their trachea.

Du Wenhui, an emergency department doctor in the hospital, said that during the Spring Festival, relatives and friends gathered more, and children had more opportunities to eat snacks, and once parents were slightly negligent, there may be unexpected situations of snacks stuck in the throat or choking into the trachea. During the Spring Festival, the emergency department received many similar situations, most of them were children under the age of 3, who encountered accidents while eating snacks such as peanuts, sunflower seeds, watermelon seeds, and raisins. Because of the timely delivery to the hospital, foreign bodies were smoothly removed.

There are also many children who "eat the wrong things"

January 31 is the Chinese New Year's Eve, parents are preparing to descal thermos bottle, resulting in a 1-year-old girl Meng Meng (pseudonym) saw the descaling agent dilution, curiously picked it up and drank. By the time the parents found out, she had already drunk about 150 milliliters. Her parents rushed her to Wuhan Children's Hospital for emergency treatment. Fortunately, the descaling agent is a food grade fruit acid product, meng Meng also has no poisoning reaction, considering that the amount she drank is relatively large, the doctor prescribed a drug to protect the stomach.

The 1-year-old boy saw the health care products that his grandmother ate, thought it was "jelly beans", and ate 12 pills in one go; the drug carboxystam tablets for asthma, children under 5 years old could only eat half a tablet at a time, but they were eaten several times by a 3-year-old girl as a snack; even after eating several bites, they found that the bread was moldy and had a poisoning reaction, and the 10-year-old boy was sent to the hospital for gastric lavage.

Cai Xiaofang, director of the emergency department of the hospital, introduced that during the Spring Festival, many children who "ate the wrong things" were treated, most of them mistakenly took drugs or cleaning products that looked like ordinary food, fortunately there were no cases of serious poisoning.

Reminder: The winter vacation still continues, and the protection does not stop

According to reports, during the Spring Festival, the emergency department of Wuhan Children's Hospital received about 300 children every day, from Chinese New Year's Eve to 12 noon on the sixth day of the first month, and more than 30 more critically ill children were also referred to the hospital in the Hubei Pediatric Medical Alliance.

Cai Xiaofang introduced that children who come to the emergency department during the Spring Festival include respiratory tract infections, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other digestive tract diseases, various children's accidental injuries such as falls, sprains, high-altitude fall injuries and other acute traumas, foreign bodies in the trachea, foreign bodies in the digestive tract, carbon monoxide poisoning and other situations. She reminded parents that children are still in the holidays, pay attention to the care of small babies, and strengthen the safety education of children in school age.

Chen Hebin, chief physician of the respiratory medicine department of the hospital, reminded parents to take their babies to places with fewer people in the near future. He introduced that winter is the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases in children, and children have low resistance, and frequent outings will increase the chance of being infected. During the Spring Festival, the number of children treated with respiratory diseases such as colds, coughs and pneumonia increased significantly more than before the festival, and more than half of them fell ill after frequent outings. He reminded parents that it is not necessary to gather less and take less young children to crowded places. Family and friends and family, when getting along with infants and young children for fun and contact, the time is as short as possible, and must take the initiative to wear a mask to protect the health of the child to the greatest extent.

【Editor: Lina Yu】