A garlic seedling stuck in the trachea, the acute child father is in danger of dying, the doctor reminds: food must be chewed

Jimu News reporter Liao Shiqi

Correspondent Zhou Shan

The 67-year-old Zhang Daddy is an acute child, usually eating also swallowed, because eating fast, swallowing fiercely, has been choked by food many times, fortunately there is no major incident. At noon yesterday, because I ate too fast, a garlic seedling that was too late to digest almost killed Zhang Daddy.

At lunch yesterday, Daddy Zhang swallowed garlic seedlings, carrots, lettuce and other vegetables, and as a result, he began to cough after a while, thinking that he could relieve it by taking a break after inducing vomiting. After dinner, Daddy Zhang had a violent cough, wheezing, chest tightness, and could not lie flat at all, and even his lips and face began to turn purple. The frightened family rushed to send the old man to the Yangtze River Shipping General Hospital and Wuhan Brain Hospital overnight for treatment.

After the emergency green channel examination, it was found that There was a long columnar high shadow in the right bronchi of Daddy Zhang, which may be a foreign body of the trachea. Mao Yan, a receiving physician in the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department of the hospital, said that tracheal foreign bodies should not be taken lightly, and once treatment is delayed, mild ones can lead to serious complications such as bronchitis, pneumonia, lung abscess, spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema, etc., and may even cause suffocation quickly and endanger life.

Director Wang Qian, an expert in the department, immediately organized the tracheoscopic medical team to conduct emergency bronchoscopic exploration for Zhang Daddy, accurately located to the lower end of the right main bronchi, and found a yellow-white cylindrical foreign body with a small amount of sticky secretions attached to the surface, and the team steadily removed the foreign body up to nearly 4 centimeters intact. It was identified that this foreign object was a garlic sprout that Zhang Daddy swallowed at lunch.

Combined with the patient's eating habits and unexpected experience, Wang Qian told the family that Zhang Daddy is due to bad eating habits, resulting in food not digested in time, when the first cough abnormality occurs, if the timely medical treatment or can detect the tracheal foreign body accident, but Zhang Daddy did not pay attention, but instead of inducing vomiting to make the foreign body further into the trachea, coupled with a large number of subsequent eating dinner, so that the foreign body went down, and finally stuck in the lower part of the trachea, forming an acute inflammatory reaction, and even the airway was blocked.

Wang Qian reminded that the elderly should pay special attention to daily eating or talking, chew food, and speak at intervals. Once you encounter accidental swallowing, do not take chances, even if the mucosal stimulation is relatively small food or items, even if there is no immediate obvious symptoms, you should also seek medical treatment or call 120 in time, before the arrival of professional medical personnel, you can take the "Heimlich First Aid Method" to save yourself.

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