During the National Day holiday, children enjoy the holiday to the fullest, but there are also children who accidentally cause trouble. In Wuhan, one-and-a-half-year-old Pippi secretly swallowed a pin while his family was not looking.
It is understood that on the day of the incident, Pippi's grandmother took her out and put a pin on the cabinet at the door. After dinner, Grandma noticed that the pin was missing. After asking the family, they learned that they didn't take it, and Pipsqueak had played in the area, so he highly suspected that the child had swallowed it.
After being sent to the hospital for examination, the doctor saw through Pippi's chest X-ray that a pin was in sight, which was particularly dazzling. At this point, the child has been swallowing the pin for several hours and is in a dangerous situation. Zhu Zhenni, deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology of Hubei Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, said: "This pin is a sharp foreign body, and it is relatively long, about three centimeters. During peristalsis, the pin may pop open, and the sharp part in front of it may pierce the stomach, and there is a risk of perforation. ”
After discussion, the doctor decided to perform an emergency gastroscopic foreign body removal for Pippi. At 12 a.m., after the doctor gave Pippi moderate sedation and analgesia, Dr. Jenny Chu used a removable gastrointestinal endoscope to remove the foreign body from the child. Dr. Jenny Chu said: "When we went down, there was no way to see the foreign body, because it was mixed in the food residue, so we came up with a way to tie a magnetic suction device to the tip of the gastroscope, because the pin is magnetic, so the suction device can be sucked out quickly after going down." ”
According to the doctor, preschool children are full of curiosity about new things, like to explore the world with their mouths, and are very prone to swallowing foreign bodies by mistake. The hospital has seen children who have swallowed foreign objects such as pen caps, magnets, batteries, cake forks, coins, and diodes. Dr. Jenny Chu reminded: "We recommend that family members put away these small loose items as much as possible and put them out of the reach of children, especially some corrosive foreign objects, such as button batteries. ”
Reporter: Tong Liang, Liu Fang, Correspondent: Huang Jieying