Little girl lying down playing and swallowing gold ring, need emergency

On May 28, specialist doctor Truong Ngoc Nha, Head of Endoscopy Center of Xuyen A Hospital, said that the first case was a 2-month-old baby (HCMC) who was brought to the emergency room by family members due to swallowing foreign object is a gold ring.

The patient’s family said that, before the time of admission, the baby was lying with his hand in his mouth, with a ring on his hand. Immediately after that, the baby showed signs of difficulty breathing, coughing, coughing, red face.. The family suspected that the baby had swallowed the ring on his finger, so they took him to the hospital for emergency.

Here, after examination and X-ray results, the doctors determined that there was a ring-like metal object in the esophagus, the Esophageal the patient’s chest.

Emergency endoscopic image of the ring foreign body BSCC

Immediately after that, the baby was quickly transferred to the hospital’s Endoscopy Center for treatment Endoscopic The ambulance took the ring out. During and after endoscopic examination, there was no bleeding, present health The patient is stable, suckling well.

After only a few hours, the Endoscopy Center continued to receive emergency foreign objects for 4-year-old children, this time the object was a coin. The family said that about 30 minutes after being admitted to the hospital, the child was sitting and playing when he swallowed the coin.

X-ray results showed a coin-shaped foreign body in the left gastrointestinal tract at the level of the posterior arc ribs D12. Right after that, the baby was endoscopically removed the coin foreign body from the stomach. After endoscopic removal of foreign bodies, no bleeding occurred, the patient’s health was stable and was discharged within the same day.

Endoscopic image of a coin in a child’s stomach bscc

Doctor Truong Ngoc Nha recommends that because young children are hyperactive and curious, parents should pay special attention not to let children play with small, sharp toys, objects that are easy to put in their mouths such as batteries, Coins, marbles, objects with toxic chemicals,… In case of swallowing foreign objects, if not detected and removed soon, foreign objects may become blocked in the esophagus or airways causing consequences. serious, even life-threatening if not handled promptly.

In addition, foreign bodies can move along gastrointestinal enter the intestine causing damage such as tearing and perforating the intestinal mucosa, intestinal obstruction, which greatly affects the health of the child. At that time, the intervention to remove by endoscopic method was extremely difficult, even the patient had to undergo a more complicated surgery.