Swallowing the face of a bracelet, a 16-month-old baby turns purple

April 28, Family General Hospital (Da Nang City) said that he had just performed an endoscopy to remove the ring face from the stomach of 16-month-old baby HT.K.

K. was brought to the hospital by his parents at the Emergency Department, Family Hospital in a state of irritability, lethargy, irritability, bruising of the left eyelid, increased secretions from the pharynx, tachycardia, and rough lung sounds. , SpO2 95%… The emergency doctor quickly managed to aspirate sputum, Indications for subclinical chest X-ray and CT scan of the brain for consultation and treatment.

X-ray results showed a foreign body in the stomach. In order to limit possible complications, the team of doctors from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation consulted and decided to endoscopy with anesthesia to pick up foreign body for baby.

The team of doctors at Family General Hospital is carrying out foreign body removal for a 16-month-old baby sx

Within 15 minutes, the foreign body, which is a 1cm-sized stone ring, was removed from the baby’s stomach.

The hospital added that, 6 hours after the endoscopy, the child was sleeping peacefully, breathing evenly, SpO2 97% and was transferred to the Pediatrics Department for further monitoring. treatment of pneumonia.

Ms. NT, the mother of K., said that while playing, K. fell and choked, showing signs of difficulty breathing, so within 30 minutes the family took the child to the emergency room.

Doctor.CK1 Nguyen Quang Sang (Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary Medicine, Family General Hospital) said gastrointestinal foreign body is a surgical emergency, it should be diagnosed and treated early because it affects the patient’s life, especially in young children.

Parents can promptly recognize the signs that the child has swallowed a foreign object and take the child to the nearest medical facility when there are signs, including: The child is irritable, crying, salivating, pain when swallowing , abdominal pain or vomiting, vomiting blood, bloody stools or coughing, choking, difficulty breathing, respiratory failure in case the child has a foreign body in the airway.