Source: November 23, 2022 "Yantai Daily" 6th edition
This newspaper (YMG All-Media Reporter Pang Lei Correspondent Sun Xiaoyan) Recently, a 4-year-old child in Haiyang City was playful and mistakenly swallowed the zipper into his stomach. This scared the parents and did not dare to delay for a moment. He urgently came to the emergency room of Haiyang People's Hospital.
On the same day, the gastroenterology department immediately arranged an examination. The results of the DR film showed that there were foreign objects in the child's stomach. If it is not removed quickly, once the foreign object reaches the small intestine or colon through the pylorus and cannot be discharged from the body smoothly, incarceration and perforation will occur. The zipper can only be removed through surgical operations, which will cause greater pain to the child.
The situation is urgent, and foreign objects must be removed under the endoscopy as soon as possible. To ensure the safety of the child, medical staff urgently opened a green channel and rushed to the operating room bypassing the ward. Wang Honglin, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology, quickly arranged an endoscopic foreign object removal surgery.
It is three o'clock in the afternoon, and the diet at noon has not been digested. Anesthesiology Department takes the risk of implementing general anesthesia for children to safely perform general anesthesia. Wang Honglin discovered through gastroscopy and exploration that there was a lot of food retention in the stomach cavity. After repeated searches, he finally found the zipper in the food. Due to age problems, the child's digestive tract was relatively narrow. The experienced Wang Honglin used instruments to clamp one end of the foreign object, adjusted the angle skillfully, and successfully removed the metal foreign object through narrow areas such as cardia , middle esophagus, entrance of the esophagus, and pharynx, which made everyone present fall to the ground.
reporter learned from Haiyang People's Hospital that there are many foreign objects in the digestive tract of children, and the more common ones are fish bones, bones, magnets and toys, marbles, keys, coins, fruit cores, etc. Large and sharp foreign objects may cause perforation of the digestive tract.
Wang Honglin reminds that preventing children from accidentally taking foreign objects is the key. Parents should usually keep small and medium-sized items in their homes and strengthen care. If the child accidentally swallows foreign objects, parents should calmly recall the type, size, swallowing time and symptoms of the foreign objects that the child accidentally swallowed; at the same time, do not swallow rice balls and do not drink vinegar to avoid damaging the esophagus and aggravating the condition. More importantly, take the child immediately and hurry to the hospital with the ability to receive medical treatment, and seek help from professional doctors to remove foreign objects as soon as possible.
Editor in charge: Pang Lei
Review: Li Xiaofei
