Docs remove toy part stuck in toddler’s nose for 2 months
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:30.08.2019
For more than two months, parents of 2-yearold Rajesh* were worried about his continuous cold. The boy was breathing heavy and mucus was oozing despite several courses of medicines.
It was then that ENT surgeons at Mehta Multi-Speciality Hospital spotted the 1-cm-long sponge, a part of an educational toy, stuck in the upper part of the boy’s throat behind the nose, the nasopharynx. The sponge, in the shape of number eight, was pulled out endoscopically. It was eroding the mucous membrane, a tissue that lines the nasal cavity, causing excessive bleeding.
“The child has recovered well. But, we are seeing an increase in the number of children being brought in with foreign bodies. That’s worrying,” said anaesthesiologist Dr R Dhenesh at the hospital. If peanuts and peas were the most common foreign bodies that blocked the air passage in children till recently, now it’s tiny toy parts, button batteries and whistles, he said. The hospital receives at least 15 cases of children choking — 60% boys — every month.
In younger children, the cases were more complicated because they were not able to explain their trauma. For instance, Rajesh’s parents didn’t know that the toy part was blocking his respiratory tract. “We identified it as his symptoms were what we see in textbooks,” said hospital emergency medicine expert Dr Sharada Satish. “Luckily, it wasn’t a button battery or magnet and it didn’t get into the lungs,” she said.
This numeral made from sponge was pulled out by doctors
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:30.08.2019
For more than two months, parents of 2-yearold Rajesh* were worried about his continuous cold. The boy was breathing heavy and mucus was oozing despite several courses of medicines.
It was then that ENT surgeons at Mehta Multi-Speciality Hospital spotted the 1-cm-long sponge, a part of an educational toy, stuck in the upper part of the boy’s throat behind the nose, the nasopharynx. The sponge, in the shape of number eight, was pulled out endoscopically. It was eroding the mucous membrane, a tissue that lines the nasal cavity, causing excessive bleeding.
“The child has recovered well. But, we are seeing an increase in the number of children being brought in with foreign bodies. That’s worrying,” said anaesthesiologist Dr R Dhenesh at the hospital. If peanuts and peas were the most common foreign bodies that blocked the air passage in children till recently, now it’s tiny toy parts, button batteries and whistles, he said. The hospital receives at least 15 cases of children choking — 60% boys — every month.
In younger children, the cases were more complicated because they were not able to explain their trauma. For instance, Rajesh’s parents didn’t know that the toy part was blocking his respiratory tract. “We identified it as his symptoms were what we see in textbooks,” said hospital emergency medicine expert Dr Sharada Satish. “Luckily, it wasn’t a button battery or magnet and it didn’t get into the lungs,” she said.
This numeral made from sponge was pulled out by doctors
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