During the Spring Festival, every family will prepare some nut snacks such as peanuts and melon seeds, but these small snacks often cause foreign bodies in children's trachea, causing serious consequences. Recently, the North Guangdong People's Hospital has treated a number of cases of foreign bodies in children's trachea.
Many parents will think that the baby has teeth and can bite and eat nuts. In fact, small babies under 3 years old are not easy to chew nuts, and the swallowing reflex is not yet fully developed, even if they can bite nuts, they cannot be fully chewed, and large particles are still easy to jam the trachea. Especially like macadamia nuts, pistachios and other round nuts, when the baby eats in the mouth, adults are more likely to slide into the trachea.
Xiao Xiaobing, Director of the Department of Pediatrics of North Guangdong People's Hospital:
Recently received 4 cases of children's tracheal foreign bodies, he eats melon seeds peanuts including longan meat, most of the tracheal foreign bodies are within three years of age, especially 1-3 years old children will walk, not in the parents' sight, may secretly eat some melon seeds peanuts.
Respiratory foreign bodies can cause severe coughing, wheezing, obstruction and asphyxia, respiratory and circulatory failure in the early stages, and can cause secondary infections, granulation hyperplasia, necrosis of lung tissue, lung abscesses and even turn into chronic lung diseases and serious complications of the lungs. Keep small items that are easily inhaled by children out of reach of children. Once your child has a sudden, unexplained, severe cough and poor breathing, consider whether a foreign body has choked in and immediately go to the hospital for medical treatment.
Generally we recommend that children under the age of 3 do not eat nuts, even in the company of parents do not eat, especially during the Spring Festival, there are more snacks at home, relatives and friends walk around more, children play together to eat it is easy to have accidents.
Source: People's livelihood concern