Heqing News Network News A few days ago, the General Surgery Department of Hebei Children's Hospital received a girl with a "bracelet" in her abdomen, and after open surgery, the doctor repaired nine intestinal perforations. Niu Huizhong, director of the General Foreign First Section, reminded parents that this kind of net red toy is best not to be played with by children under the age of 14, so as not to be swallowed by children.
Girls have "bracelets" in their abdomen, causing intestinal perforations
Late one night, the telephone ringing in the duty room of the General Surgery Department of Hebei Children's Hospital broke through the night sky, and a man consulted, after his 5-year-old daughter Honghong (pseudonym) swallowed a coin by mistake, he took a film and found that there was a string of "hand strings" in the child's stomach, what to do. After careful questioning, the doctor on duty judged that the "bracelet" was likely to be a magnetic bead of an internet celebrity toy. The family members remembered in panic that the child had been swallowing magnetic beads for half a year! The doctor on duty asked the family to take the child to the hospital immediately.
Location of foreign body Courtesy photo/Hebei Provincial Children's Hospital
Honghong was taken to The Children's Hospital of Hebei Province, where x-rays of her abdomen showed 27 magnetic beads and a coin in her abdomen. Niu Huizhong, director of the General Foreign Section, immediately realized the danger when he saw the film, although the vast majority of small foreign bodies in the digestive tract can be discharged by themselves, but swallowing magnetic beads is likely to cause serious consequences. Because once two or more magnetic beads enter the intestine, the intestinal wall will be tightly attached together, resulting in ischemia and necrosis of the intestinal wall, and even perforation, peritonitis, sepsis, etc., which can be life-threatening in severe cases.
The medical staff of the General Surgery Department immediately started the emergency procedure of emergency surgery and performed emergency surgery. Magnetic bead surgery is familiar to general practitioners. However, multiple magnetic beads attract each other, which can cause more perforations in the digestive tract and miss a place, which is fatal to children. Therefore, the focus of surgery is to explore thoroughly to avoid missing perforations. After repeated exploration, the doctor found that 27 magnetic beads were distributed in different positions of the duodenum and small intestine, and the super magnetic force made the intestines in different positions squeeze and rub against each other, eventually causing perforation to be adsorbed together, the inflammatory stimulation made the small intestine form an adhesion, and the posterior wall of the descending section of the duodenum and the horizontal junction was 5 perforations, containing 15 magnetic beads, 4 perforations in the ileum, containing 12 magnetic beads and 1 coin, and the magnetic beads formed a ring-like connection due to super magnetism, resembling a bracelet, and could not move through the intestine to the distal end of the intestine. The doctor completely removed 27 magnetic beads and 1 coin and repaired 9 perforated intestinal walls. After the operation, after the meticulous treatment and care of the medical staff of the General Surgery Department, Honghong has been successfully discharged from the hospital.
This kind of toy must not be played with by children
Magnetic beads, also known as "magnetic buck balls", have a diameter of about 5 mm, have magnetism, can be arbitrarily arranged and combined to form a variety of shapes, in the hands of imaginative children can be pieced together a variety of different shapes, deeply loved by children.
Foreign object removed Courtesy photo/Hebei Provincial Children's Hospital
Niu Huizhong reminds parents that magnetic beads are a kind of stress-reducing educational toy suitable for children over 14 years old and adults to play, and it is best not to play with children under 14 years old. The strong suction between the beads after swallowing can cause damage to the digestive tract and even perforation, and if it cannot be detected in time, it is very easy to have serious consequences. Therefore, once the child is found to have swallowed by mistake, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time and pay attention to the child's situation, and must not be taken lightly.
Text/Heqing News Network reporter Wang Shan Correspondent Fan Jing, Wang Chaolong
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