The battery was successfully removed.
Red net moment Hengyang September 23 news (correspondent Lu Jiali reporter Tan Qian) At two o'clock in the morning of September 22, the emergency department of Hengyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital received a call, a seven-year-old boy swallowed a button battery by mistake, the situation was critical, and was transferred from a tertiary general hospital to Hengyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
Button batteries and other foreign bodies are different, once into the digestive tract, will cause burns to the mucous membrane, coupled with the corrosion of gastric acid, will lead to some alkaline substances in the battery into the stomach, resulting in gastric wall corrosion, causing digestive tract damage, serious may cause esophageal perforation, gastrointestinal bleeding, life-threatening.
The doctor on duty of the Pediatric Inpatient Department of the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital immediately handled the hospitalization of the child, and Wang Lizhong, deputy director of the pediatric digestive endoscopy of the hospital, immediately organized the members of the endoscopic center to remove the foreign body of the digestive tract for the child in the emergency department. During the gastroscopy exploration, Wang Lizhong found a button-like battery with a diameter of about 10 mm in the mucus lake of the stomach body, the mucus lake was mixed with food, obscuring the field of vision, and the button battery was small and round, and the surface was smooth, which invisibly increased the difficulty of the operation, once slipped, the greater the possibility of vomiting and aspiration, and the higher the risk.
Under the difficulties, Wang Lizhong and the team members relied on their skillful technology and rich inspection to find the right angle, tacit cooperation, use the net basket, firmly cover the battery, and in only 2 minutes, the battery was successfully removed. At this time, the back of the button has been corroded and blackened, and the child's gastric mucosa has also been slightly damaged, and after the operation, the municipal gynecological and pediatric department team continues to pay attention to the child's situation and give corresponding treatment.
Doctors remind parents to correctly prevent children from eating dangerous items such as button batteries by mistake, and once they find that children have swallowed button batteries by mistake, they must seek medical treatment quickly. Batteries may retain substances in the body, causing certain damage to the esophagus, stomach and intestines. If the battery stays in your child's stomach for an extra minute, your child will be a little more dangerous. Behaviors such as blind eating or vomiting can not dilute the toxicity of the battery, but will aggravate the disease.
The Digestive Endoscopy Room of Hengyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital was established on May 28, 2020, and is the first and only children's digestive endoscopy center in Hengyang City, which has opened children's electronic gastroscope, electronic colonoscopy, gastrointestinal foreign body removal, electronic colonoscopic polypotomy, c13 Helicobacter pylori detection, ingestion allergen detection and other projects. Since the opening of the department, it has taken out coins, hairpins, bracelets, screws, pen covers, button batteries and other foreign objects for 100 children in Hengyang.