Choking on eating or drinking
Everyone should have experienced it
That feeling of getting stuck in a foreign object
It's really uncomfortable
But you can imagine
A person inhales a foreign body from the trachea while they are a student
Have you been "coexisting" for nearly 30 years?
The 45-year-old man mistakenly snapped the whistle
Aspiration into the trachea for 30 years
Recently, the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Xi'an High-tech Hospital received such a patient. Mr. Li, 45, told the doctor that after he was infected with the new crown one year ago, he had symptoms of cough and sputum, and the sputum was yellow and sticky when he got up at night and in the morning, and white foamy sputum during the day, and he also had symptoms of shortness of breath.
After the chest CT examination, the doctor found that the wall of the right main bronchus and the middle bronchus was annularly thickened, the lumen was narrowed, and the right main bronchus was covered with a strip of calcareous opacity. A detailed physical examination reveals coarse breath sounds in both lungs and inspiratory wheezing in the right lung. After learning about the medical history, Mr. Li told the doctor that he had aspirated the whistle joint 30 years ago, but there were no obvious symptoms of discomfort at that time, so he had never been diagnosed and treated.
After completing the preoperative examination, Director Wang Lifeng conducted an electronic bronchoscopy for Mr. Li and found the presence of a foreign body. The bronchial foreign body was removed by freezing in the middle of the right segment, and it turned out to be a whistle joint.
After systematic treatment, Mr. Li's follow-up condition was stable.
Whistle swallowed into the trachea for many years
It has happened before
In September 2021, some media reported that Xiao Lin, a 26-year-old man from Shenzhen, has always had discomfort in his lungs since he was a child, and his condition has been repeated, but Xiao Lin himself cannot determine whether the foreign body is in the lungs. He recalls that when he was about 6 years old, he owned a small yellow duck that could make sounds, but accidentally sucked the rubber plug inside that was used to make sounds.
After some examination, he finally found the culprit that caused Xiao Lin to suffer from pneumonia repeatedly, and it was the whistle! After repeated consideration, the doctor put an electric knife through the bronchoscope, performed a minimally invasive operation on Xiao Lin's lungs, made a small incision, and then froze the whistle and took it out smoothly. Kobayashi said that he recovered well after the operation, and he was "refreshed" and spoke very strongly.
Although the above incidents all happened to adults
However, in this case, there are repeated cases of pneumonia in the same area
But it is more likely to appear in children
Doctor's Reminder:
If your child has repeated pneumonia in the same area
Be sure to check to see if you have inhaled a foreign body in your lungs
A bronchial examination may also be performed if necessary
First aid can also be given with the Heimlich maneuver
In daily life, this kind of airway and bronchial foreign body obstruction is more common in the elderly and infants, due to the different degrees of obstruction, the clinical manifestations are cough or cough weakness, wheezing, dyspnea, high-pitched sounds can be heard when inhaling, etc., and in severe cases, inability to breathe or even suffocation death. Around us, there are often children who inhale food or toys and die of suffocation, resulting in many tragedies. Most patients can avoid tragedy by timely detection and treatment.