During the Spring Festival, children's accidental injuries are frequent, Hubei Jingshi "Jingshi Live" reporter learned that the Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital Children's Respiratory Medicine Department has to receive foreign body inhalation children every day, small babies are easy to be choked by nuts, and school-age children often swallow stationery.
A 1-year-old baby gets stuck in his left and right lungs with peanuts
Duoduo (pseudonym), a 13-month-old family living in Xianning, Hubei Province, at 12 noon on February 6, when his family did not pay attention, he grabbed two peanuts and rice to eat, but unexpectedly there was a violent cough and difficulty breathing. Parents immediately sent Duoduo to the local hospital for treatment, CT examination found that there was a foreign body stuck in the main bronchi of the right lung, it is recommended to immediately send to hubei provincial maternal and child health hospital for treatment. At 4 p.m., the parents drove Duoduo to the Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, and the emergency department doctor found that Duoduo's face was cyanosis after receiving the treatment, and the small chest was deeply sunken in each breath, which was obviously difficult to breathe, and the CT examination of the hospital found that there was also a foreign body in the main bronchi of the left lung, and he was quickly sent to the Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine Department. Considering the seriousness of Duoduo's condition, the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Department applied for a green channel, and the doctor performed bedside bronchoscopic foreign body surgery for Duoduo, and the two small peanut kernels of the main bronchi of the left and right lungs were removed successively with a foreign body net basket. Subsequently, Dodo's breathing difficulties quickly improved.
"When the child was examined at the local hospital in Xianning, only one lung had a foreign body, which may be a bumpy and crying on the road, and a peanut kernel moved to the other lung." According to the doctor, this situation is quite dangerous, fortunately, the main bronchi of the left lung is not completely blocked, and the child still has weak breathing.
A 9-year-old swallows a ballpoint pen tip while doing homework
Babies are easy to cough nuts, and the older children have not "stopped", around the New Year, Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital has treated a total of three cases of school-age children who have misspented stationery such as ballpoint pen heads and pen caps. On the afternoon of the third day of the Chinese New Year, 9-year-old Qiqi (pseudonym) twisted the ballpoint pen tip down and played with it in his mouth while doing homework, and tried to whistle with the tip of the pen, and sucked the tip of the pen into the throat with greater force during a single inhalation. Hearing Kiki coughing loudly, the mother ran to take a look, the child's small face was red, she quickly did Heimlich first aid for Kiki, the child's face improved a little, but still did not spit out the pen. The mother thinks he may have swallowed it in her stomach and hopes that the child will excrete it on her own. After dinner, Kiki's breathing grew heavier in the quiet room, and his mother decided to take him to the doctor. Doctors from Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital found through CT examination that Qi qi had a circular high-density shadow in the middle of the dry bronchi in the middle of his right lung. The doctor immediately performed bronchoscopic foreign body surgery for Kiki, firmly clamped the pen head with foreign body forceps, found the angle, quickly passed through the glottis, and successfully removed the foreign body once "fast and accurate".
It is reported that in the 10 days before and after the Spring Festival, the Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Bronchoscopy Center of Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital did nearly 20 cases of foreign body removal surgery. Wu Yabin, director of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, introduced that babies under the age of three are the main group of people who have inhaled nuts by mistake, and the center has taken out nuts such as peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, pistachios and even hazelnut shells; school-age children mainly swallow stationery and toys by mistake, and even dangerous items such as diodes. Director Wu reminded parents to take good care of their children during the holidays, children under the age of 3 should not touch small items, beware of accidental eating, try to beat nuts into powder to eat, and the eldest children should do a good job of education and reminders, do not swallow foreign bodies by mistake during play.
Source: Hubei Jingshi "Jingshi Live"